The Mont Pèlerin Society pioneered a nested structure integrating theory and action

Evidence

I would suggest that the Mont Pèlerin Society evolved into an exceptionally successful structure for the incubation of integrated political theory and political action outside of the more conventional structures of academic disciplines and political parties in the second half of the twentieth century. Perhaps, one day, it will come to be studied as something new in the sociology of knowledge in the twentieth century. It was a novel framework that served to confine any tendencies to intellectual dissolution, holding the three subguilds in productive tension. Hayek in 1946 initially promoted a vision of the MPS as “something halfway between a scholarly association and a political society,” but it evolved into something much more than that. The main reason the MPS should serve as our talisman in tracking neoliberalism is because it exists as part of a rather special structure of intellectual discourse, perhaps unprecedented in the 1940s, one I would venture to propose to think of as a “Russian doll” approach to the integration of research and praxis in the modern world. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 122

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the book’s core analytic concept — the MPS as a “Russian doll” structure and the “thought collective” term it will track throughout.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 122
• XREF: connects to: 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; The Haberler method presaged the Mont Pèlerin Society structure — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the…, 247; 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

• The Mont Pèlerin Society pioneered a novel hierarchy for incubating political theory and action. #corroborates (1.00) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 122
• A French 1938 colloquium provided the institutional model for the Mont Pèlerin Society. #contradicts (0.80) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 272
• The Haberler method presaged the Mont Pèlerin Society structure #qualifies (0.75) — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 247