Mont Pelerin Society premises on monopoly underpinned the Chicago Antitrust Project

Evidence

To comprehend the neoliberal claims advanced by Director and Levi (1956), the sharp departures from the classical liberal doctrine during the course of the FMS must be considered, for the premises of the FMS regarding monopoly and corporations formed the underlying assumptions for the neoliberal premises of the Antitrust Project. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1133

Categorization

• XREF: This substantiates the reader’s core question about how the MPS intellectual network generated policy doctrine — the FMS (likely the Free Market Study) fed directly into Chicago antitrust theory. — connects to: Mont Pèlerin circles shaped postwar German currency policy but lost on antitrust. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 29; The Chicago Antitrust Project was the first applied neoliberal project — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1121; Chicago School antitrust argued monopoly power could not spread via listed abusive practices — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1132 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Mont Pelerin Society networks seeded think tanks across Latin America #expands (0.75) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 561