MPS’s development turn drew on prewar émigré networks and colonial ties

Evidence

Beyond local strongholds in different countries (like Germany, the UK, the United States, and France), MPS had an early presence in the developing world (e.g., South Africa, Mexico, Brazil) and a number of intellectual allies in others (e.g., India) as we shall see shortly, which was partly due to the colonial history of these countries. Reliable transnational links dating back to Mises’s Privatseminar conducted in Vienna during the 1920s and the results of émigré networking of Hayek in the UK and Haberler in the United States during the 1930s and 1940s (see Feichtinger 2001) were an invaluable asset when MPS members started to examine the field of development economics and politics during the 1950s. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1271

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to foundational neoliberal historiography and network studies—Mises’s Vienna Privatseminar links to the wider émigré intellectual diaspora of the 1930s-40s.