Swiss hospitality made Switzerland the indispensable physical base for the early neoliberal network

Evidence

By the time neoliberalism emerged—during the 1930s—nearly all the Austrian and several important German and French contributors had moved abroad (to Switzerland, the UK, and the United States, for example). … Switzerland also deserves recognition as a particular transnational neoliberal space because of the hospitality of Swiss neoliberal intellectuals and institutions to Austrian, German, and Italian refugee neoliberals. It was certainly not mere coincidence that the Mont Pèlerin Society was founded in this country: only Switzerland provided neoliberal intellectuals the intellectual and institutional space and financial backing needed to organize an international conference of and for neoliberals right after World War II. Until the end of the 1950s, it remained easier for neoliberals to congregate in Switzerland than anywhere else: four of the ten Mont Pèlerin Society meetings between 1947 and 1960 took place in Switzerland. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 151

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader story of refugee intellectual networks in the 1930s-40s, e.g. the Vienna Circle’s dispersal to the US and UK. — connects to: Neoliberalism’s core concepts formed in the 1930s through networked institutions — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 352; Neoliberalism rose to hegemony through transnational networks of scholars and allies — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 81; Raymond Aron bridged French liberalism and the neoliberal Mont Pelerin network — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 387 (+1 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 151

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism rose to hegemony through transnational networks of scholars and allies #expands (0.78) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 81
• Raymond Aron bridged French liberalism and the neoliberal Mont Pelerin network #exemplifies (0.78) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 387
• Neoliberalism’s core concepts formed in the 1930s through networked institutions #corroborates (0.72) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 352
• Neutral, non-colonizing Switzerland profited heavily from the slave trade #complicates (0.72) — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 259