Mises’s doctrinal purity cost him academic standing and movement influence in America.

Evidence

In the years after the “Colloque Lippmann” this group found itself increasingly marginalized from the movement’s ongoing debates. Mises’s refusals to compromise his “pure” version of liberalism left him engaged in ever fewer dialogues, and made it impossible for him to fi nd an academic position commensurate with his professional prestige after he fl ed Switzerland for the United States at the end of the de cade. — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, 191

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the puzzle of Mises’s marginal, underemployed American career — the usual narrative of Austrian school post-1940 influence hides his actual institutional weakness.