Hayek believed the IEA method alone could win intellectuals worldwide

Evidence

On New Year’s day 1980, Hayek wrote a letter to Fisher, to be used for the purpose of raising funds for this expansion. “I entirely agree with you,” Hayek wrote, “that the time has come when it has become desirable to extend the network of institutes of the kind of the London Institute of Economic Affairs.” With the hyperbole required for fund raising, he added that “[t]he future of civilization may really depend on whether we can catch the ear of a large enough part of the upcoming generation of intellectuals all over the world fast enough. And I am more and more convinced that the method practiced by the IEA is the only one which promises any real results.” — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1942

Categorization

• SEED: Article angle: how a marginalized intellectual movement treated think-tank infrastructure as the decisive lever of cultural conquest — the IEA as a ‘method’ for converting intellectuals rather than voters.
• XREF: connects to: Heritage’s founder learned IEA’s research-driven advocacy model in London — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1805; Hayek believed durable intellectual movements require cross-disciplinary transnational support networks — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 238; Hayek’s academy aimed to build shared belief rather than only disseminate finished scholarship — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 85 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Hayek believed durable intellectual movements require cross-disciplinary transnational support networks #expands (0.78) — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, 238
• Hayek’s distinctive skill was coalition-building sensitivity rather than Mill-style openness #expands (0.74) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 853
• Hayek’s academy aimed to build shared belief rather than only disseminate finished scholarship #corroborates (0.72) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 85