The 1930s LSE hosted a cosmopolitan international network of visiting economists

Evidence

The list of visitors to the LSE in the 1930s included leading fi gures from a broad range of national backgrounds, such as Erik Lindahl, Bertil Ohlin, and Ragnar Frisch from Scandinavia, Constantino Bresciani- Turroni from Italy, Frank Knight and Jacob Viner from the University of Chicago, William Rappard from Switzerland, and Hayek’s Austrian acquaintances Gottfried Haberler, Fritz Machlup, and Joseph Schumpeter. — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, 71

Categorization

• XREF: This visiting-economist network is the seed of the transnational Mont Pèlerin circle the book traces; the named figures also connect to the Chicago-school and Austrian-school lineages. — connects to: Neumann studied under Laski and Mannheim at the LSE before guarding the Institute’s library. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 919; Neoliberalism’s core concepts formed in the 1930s through networked institutions — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 352

Broader Connections

• 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