Hayek reconciled intellectual credibility with donor accommodation in founding MPS

Evidence

Hayek, meanwhile, proved skilled at the dual task of reassuring colleagues of the unimpeachability of the funding sources while making limited adjustments to preserve the necessary support. He had demonstrated himself to be an institution builder with a crucial combination of qualities: an entrepreneurial ability to conceive and execute complex and potentially controversial plans, an academic background and reputation that reassured his colleagues about the nature of the enterprise, and a capacity to accommodate the needs of funding organizations without appearing wholly subject to their demands. — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, 260

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Hayek founded the Mont Pèlerin Society in 1947 to rebuild market advocacy networks. — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 30; Hayek accepted that funders would shape the institution. — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 253; Hayek founded MPS to build a worldview insulated from immediate policy pressures — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 307 (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• Hayek founded MPS to build a worldview insulated from immediate policy pressures #expands (0.90) — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, 307
• Big donors could dictate the MPS agenda and displace Hayek’s intellectual leadership #complicates (0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 973
• Hayek’s academy aimed to build shared belief rather than only disseminate finished scholarship #expands (0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 85
• Hayek believed durable intellectual movements require cross-disciplinary transnational support networks #expands (0.80) — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, 238
• Hayek functioned as the intellectual bridge linking ordoliberalism to the wider neoliberal network #expands (0.75) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 616