Raymond Aron bridged French liberalism and the neoliberal Mont Pelerin network

Evidence

The figure Allan Bloom called ‘the last of the liberals’ was a distinctly French liberal, but Aron was also an Atlanticist who played an important role in transatlantic and European liberal networks. He was present at the 1938 Walter Lippmann Colloquium, and at the founding meeting of the Mont Pèlerin Society just under a decade later. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 387

Categorization

• XREF: The Walter Lippmann Colloquium and Mont Pelerin Society connect to earlier chapters on neoliberal institutional history; Aron is a bridging figure between humanitarian and neoliberal worlds. — connects to: Swiss hospitality made Switzerland the indispensable physical base for the early neoliberal network — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 151; Religious and political heterogeneity prevented French neoliberals from building a unified network — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 294; French liberals founded ALEPS as a counterweight to Marxist intellectual events — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 300 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism’s spread depended on transnational discourse networks rather than national institutions alone #expands (0.75) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2118
• Hayek functioned as the intellectual bridge linking ordoliberalism to the wider neoliberal network #corroborates (0.72) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 616