Heritage’s founder ran an American offshoot of the Mont Pèlerin Society

Evidence

By the time Feulner assumed the mantle at Heritage, he could boast of an impressive resume as a conservative activist. Together with William Buckley, Milton Friedman, and Donald Lipsett, he helped establish the Philadelphia Society in 1964—an effort that grew out of deep disappointment among conservatives over Republican candidate Barry Goldwater’s defeat in the U.S. presidential election. The founders of the Philadelphia Society envisioned it as “an American version of the Mont Pèlerin Society, begun by F. A. Hayek in Europe twenty years before” (Edwards 1997, 186). A decade later, at the age of 32, Feulner himself would be made a member of MPS, and two decades after that, in 1996, he would be elected president of that organization. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1804

Categorization

• XREF: Direct institutional bridge between Hayek’s MPS network and American policy influence — the exact network lineage the reader is tracing. — connects to: The Philadelphia Society resembled an American branch of the Mont Pelerin Society — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1536
• DEFINE: Clarifies what the Philadelphia Society was: an American MPS clone born of the Goldwater defeat.

Broader Connections

• The Philadelphia Society resembled an American branch of the Mont Pelerin Society #exemplifies (0.95) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1536