The Mont Pèlerin Society exerted little direct influence on economics

Evidence

The MPS was no more influential inside the economics profession. There were no publications to be discussed. The American membership was apparently limited to economists of the Chicago School and its scattered university outposts, plus a few transplanted Europeans. … But these would have gone on in the same way had the MPS not existed. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 504

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader theme of how intellectual movements achieve influence — through indirect pathways rather than direct professional penetration, echoing the reader’s study of how doctrines circulate. — connects to: Mont Pèlerin Society economists drove academic changes, contrary to conventional wisdom. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 2170; The Mont Pèlerin formation bypassed the Chicago Economics Department — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 808; The Mont Pèlerin Society was founded as political philosophy, not economics. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 2168