Mises’s private Chamber created an alternative to the university for training economists

Evidence

The Chamber acted as a kind of alternative university. Economists of international reputation passed through it, including Lionel Robbins, Ragnar Nurkse, and Howard S. Ellis. Mises boasted that its library contained material that even the University of Vienna did not have. Government offices occasionally consulted the Chamber’s statistical material, which was superior to their own collection. — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 176

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader story of how neoliberal thought was cultivated in private institutional spaces — parallels the Freiburg School and later Mont Pèlerin Society networks covered in this book’s thesis about markets insulated from democracy.