The MPS concealed its organizational sponsorship of scholarly books it printed

Evidence

This 1954 collection (edited by Hayek) was published “by a commercial publisher, with Society support but without its imprimatur” according to Hartwell (1995, 93). He thus freely admits the hiding away of organizational ties between the contributing scholarly individuals. … The historical revisionism in this area, with particular regard to Marxist accounts of the history of industrialization (aiming to contradict claims about a decline in living standards of workers; see Hartwell 1995, 94), played a prominent role in the development discourse as evidenced in Benham’s paper. The interdisciplinary composition of the MPS deliberately sought by Hayek evidently eased the promotion of interdiscourses. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1344

Categorization

• XREF: Ties to the broader historiography of neoliberal network-building through seemingly independent scholarly output; echoes the network’s strategy of intellectual legitimacy through academic channels. — connects to: State texts mask the vested interests of their authors; Claims of literature’s universal value conceal their own political commitments.; Neoliberal political success hollowed out the MPS into a status symbol — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 508
• QUESTION: Worth chasing how far this pattern of hiding imprimatur ran across other MPS-sponsored publications and whether it shaped its academic credibility.

Broader Connections

• State texts mask the vested interests of their authors #exemplifies (0.85)
• Claims of literature’s universal value conceal their own political commitments. #exemplifies (0.75)
• Neoliberal political success hollowed out the MPS into a status symbol #complicates (0.70) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 508