The League and Rockefeller Foundation institutional scaffolding shaped the 1938 WLC

Evidence

Today, when interpretations of the WLC try to connect the different individuals attending the Paris colloquium of 1938 and make sense of the heterogeneous group of participants, they have failed to look at the institutional framework within which the WLC was realized. The list of participants in Paris included the international mix of experts characteristic of the IIIC who had already been involved with the League in one way or another, including representatives from knowledgeand policy-making institutions and practitioners from banks or large industries. When the list of invitees is broadened to include all those who were not able (or did not want) to attend the colloquium, the weight of the League’s IIIC and the Rockefeller Foundation becomes even more obvious. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 372

Categorization

• XREF: The claim that the WLC emerged from League of Nations institutional structures, not spontaneous intellectual convergence, nuances the standard MPS founding narrative. — connects to: The Walter Lippmann Colloquium grew directly from prewar League of Nations intellectual cooperation — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 368; Key ordoliberal and Austrian thinkers were funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and League — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 376; Early neoliberalism’s core ideas emerged inside League of Nations institutions. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 366 (+2 more)
• QUESTION: What exactly was the Rockefeller Foundation’s role at the WLC? Worth pinning down the funding/direct influence.

Broader Connections

• Key ordoliberal and Austrian thinkers were funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and League #corroborates (0.82) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 376
• Early neoliberalism grew out of League of Nations institutional networks #expands (0.80) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 403
• Early neoliberalism’s core ideas emerged inside League of Nations institutions. #expands (0.75) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 366
• Neoliberals rejected European integration because the League’s voluntary model had already failed #qualifies (0.75) — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 604