MPS members helped shape the Washington Consensus through personal teaching ties.

Evidence

Williamson appears to be unaware that Allan Meltzer has been a prominent member of the Mont Pèlerin Society (compare Weller and Singleton 2006). The extent of Williamson’s own deference to Meltzer’s positions should otherwise have signaled a convergence of doctrines between the WC and the MPS. Elsewhere, Williamson (2003, 11) informed his readers that he owes much of his own economic thinking to his teacher Fritz Machlup, and in that regard he perhaps unwittingly names yet another prominent MPS member who seems to have had a formative influence on his own thinking. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 99

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the network-detection theme of the chapter itself — the Meltzer/Machlup chain exemplifies how intellectual influence travels through teacher-student ties.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 99