Mont Pèlerin thought exceeds the three doctrines critics attribute to it

Evidence

We may therefore deduce that Williamson believes that “monetarism, supply-side economics, and minimal government” provide an exhaustive census of MPS doctrines. These doctrines do indeed owe their contemporary existence to key contributions from influential MPS members such as Milton Friedman, Karl Brunner, and Sir Alan Walters, as well as Martin Feldstein, James Buchanan, and Gary Becker, to name just a few of the better known members. But within MPS, neoliberalism was elaborated and promoted by a total thought collective of more than one thousand scholars, journalists, (think tank) professionals, and corporate and political leaders around the globe for more than fifty years; their work can by no means be reduced to these three doctrines. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 92

Categorization

  • XREF: Connects to accounts of the MPS’s global network scale (e.g., Antony’s work on its think-tank expansion beyond the founding core), a common thread in foundational neoliberalism historiography. — connects to: By the 1980s the Mont Pèlerin network held a coherent doctrinal configuration. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 2124; Both the Mont Pèlerin Society and its leftist critics obscured what neoliberalism is — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 77
  • SHARE: A precise datapoint for someone tracking the scale of the MPS network: north of one thousand members across scholars, journalists, think tanks, and corporate leaders over fifty-plus years.
  • corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 92

Broader Connections