The Haberler method presaged the Mont Pèlerin Society structure

Evidence

In its form, Haberler’s study and the conference convened to discuss it inaugurated something Robbins called the “Haberler-­like method.” The method entailed group research on “a big subject” followed by a larger meeting of experts to evaluate the results. The Haberler method established a form for international collaboration and data gathering, a halfway point between abstract economics and empirical statistics with nothing less than the entire world economy as the object. It was organic and unbound to any one institution, gathering periodically to examine and exchange research results. The similarities of the Haberler method to the format of the postwar Mont Pèlerin Society ­were not coincidental. — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 247

Categorization

• XREF: The Mont Pèlerin Society’s collaborative format clearly derives from this interwar Geneva precedent — good connective thread for the reader’s interest in Neoliberalism as an organized intellectual project. — connects to: The Mont Pèlerin Society emerged from doctrinal purification of the 1938 agenda — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 405; The Mont Pèlerin Society pioneered a novel hierarchy for incubating political theory and action. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 122; A French 1938 colloquium provided the institutional model for the Mont Pèlerin Society. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 272 (+1 more)
• DEFINE: Defines the ‘Haberler method’ as an organizational form between abstract theory and empirical data.

Broader Connections

• The Mont Pèlerin Society emerged from doctrinal purification of the 1938 agenda #expands (0.85) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 405
• The Mont Pèlerin Society pioneered a novel hierarchy for incubating political theory and action. #expands (0.80) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 122