Key ordoliberal and Austrian thinkers were funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and League

Evidence

The economists and philosophers Rüstow, Röpke, Mises, and Hayek had all been associated with either the Rockefeller Foundation or the League or both, as in the case of Röpke who received a large grant from the foundation and whose business cycle theory was translated into English on the League’s initiative. Rüstow was Röpke’s friend from Istanbul, where they shared the experience of exile (and the privilege of founding a whole social science faculty at Istanbul University). — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 376

Categorization

• XREF: Extends the Milgrom-type theme of institutions structuring trade/intellectual networks; also connects to the reader’s map of who funded interwar liberalism. — connects to: The Rockefeller Foundation refused to fund independent Frankfurt Institute research — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1148; The Rockefeller Foundation refused to fund Marcuse’s German-American anthropology project. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1987; Neoliberals rejected European integration because the League’s voluntary model had already failed — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the…, 604 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Rockefeller Foundation subsidized Hayek’s networking from his Vienna years onward #expands (0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 863
• Haberler’s career spanned the Austrian school, League of Nations, Harvard, and AEI. #exemplifies (0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1757