The MPS represented the first peacetime-directed mobilization of the neoliberal thought collective.

Evidence

United under the umbrella of the MPS since 1947, neoliberals mobilized for the first time a directed capacity for changing the world under peacetime conditions without the interruptions created by war and emigration. But it is important to recognize the earlier efforts made between World Wars I and II. During the 1930s, concerned liberals felt an increasingly urgent need to confront the perceived evils of planning and the failures generated by the laissez-faire attitudes of fellow liberals. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 99

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes the MPS as a ‘thought collective’ and distinguishes its post-1947 peacetime mobilization from earlier interwar liberal efforts.
• XREF: Connects to Mirowski and Plehwe’s edited volume on the Mont Pèlerin Society and to Foucault’s Birth of Biopolitics lectures on German ordoliberalism and neoliberal genealogy. — connects to: The MPS and Heritage favored contrasting strategies for spreading neoliberal influence — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1806
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 99

Broader Connections

• The MPS and Heritage favored contrasting strategies for spreading neoliberal influence #qualifies (0.72) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1806