Mont Pèlerin members held substantial agricultural economics expertise

Evidence

Nor do we know enough yet about Mont Pèlerin and free trade, the considerable expertise of MPS members in agricultural economics, or the international replication of the think tank model (but see Fischer and Plehwe 2013 on Latin America, and Plehwe and Schlögl 2014 on European think tank networks). — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 31

Categorization

• QUESTION: Neoliberal intellectuals as agricultural economists — a surprising niche worth investigating given agrarianism’s usual association with the left.
• XREF: Intersects with the reader’s tree/grafting infrastructure piece via food-system economics — agricultural policy and its intellectual architects.