Shared worldview rather than shared profession bonded the MPS’s diverse members

Evidence

Christian Gandil (1986) named several friends he had made among U.S. MPS members and suggested: “the basis for a friendship is to be in agreement concerning outlook of life.” The combination of sometimes even rather close personal ties among people of diverse professional backgrounds provided for a fertile mix of sympathy, respect, and competency prevailing among MPS members, notwithstanding occasional episodes suggesting the opposite. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 127

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 127
• XREF: connects to: Competing schools within the MPS hold irreconcilable definitions of the market — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 149; Key advocates of floating exchange rates were nearly all networked MPS members — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 446; The Freiburg School supplied a disproportionate share of MPS membership across generations — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 628 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• The MPS founding manifesto committed to general values, not specific programmatic aims #corroborates (0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 149