Hayek believed durable intellectual movements require cross-disciplinary transnational support networks

Evidence

Hayek recognized that his ideas would develop a broad and durable base of support only if they were supported by intellectuals from a range of disciplines and national backgrounds. Most urgently, he sought to reconvene his growing network of allies and supporters on a more permanent basis. — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, 238

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Milgrom’s finding that trade institutions emerge to foster the reputational/associational networks that individual dispersed actors cannot sustain alone — here Hayek sees MPS as the institutionalization of a dispersed intellectual community. — connects to: Hayek and Friedman shared faith that ideas could transform political practice — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 560; A transnational intellectual network deliberately reversed the growth of government and rebuilt free-market support. — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 21; Hayek founded the Mont Pèlerin Society in 1947 to rebuild market advocacy networks. — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 30 (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism’s spread depended on transnational discourse networks rather than national institutions alone #expands (0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2118
• Hayek functioned as the intellectual bridge linking ordoliberalism to the wider neoliberal network #exemplifies (0.82) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 616
• Hayek’s academy aimed to build shared belief rather than only disseminate finished scholarship #corroborates (0.80) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 85
• Hayek’s distinctive skill was coalition-building sensitivity rather than Mill-style openness #corroborates (0.78) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 853
• Hayek contrasted the well-funded communist international network with the liberal movement’s poverty #corroborates (0.75) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1455