The Mont Pèlerin Society emerged from doctrinal purification of the 1938 agenda

Evidence

Bretton Woods’ fixed but adjustable exchange rates, the dominance of Keynesian macroeconomics, and the increasing limitation of the price mechanism’s scope by welfare state practices and various plans within the European reconstruction process might have motivated some early neoliberals to purify their doctrine and to gather their strength in the MPS (see Matthias Schmelzer’s contribution to this volume), while others remained powerful policy-makers, for example Marjolin, and tolerated a more pragmatic approach. Yet this purification must be seen as one of many possible outcomes of the original Agenda of Liberalism from 1938, not as an ironclad inevitability. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 405

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s stated map-building goal — the pragmatic-vs-purist split within early neoliberalism is an internal variety worth tracing, connecting to Mirowski’s own framing. — connects to: The Haberler method presaged the Mont Pèlerin Society structure — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the…, 247; Hayek designed the Mont Pèlerin Society as a closed ideological academy — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 193; 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

Broader Connections

• A French 1938 colloquium provided the institutional model for the Mont Pèlerin Society. #corroborates (0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 272