The Property and Freedom Society split from Mont Pèlerin over perceived compromise with socialism

Evidence

Unlike Angus Burgin’s efforts to Americanize and individualize transnational Mont Pèlerin history, Plickert keeps the “neo” of neoliberalism firmly in focus: the organized effort to think at some distance from both traditional laissez-faire and collectivism or socialism. … Plickert (2008, 462) alerts his readers to the strategic dimensions of the neoliberal intellectual program from the Colloque Walter Lippmann onward, to the different wings struggling within the project, and, significantly, to the eventual founding of the competing Property and Freedom Society in 2006, modeled after the Mont Pèlerin Society. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 8

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Burgin’s The Great Persuasion and the broader historiography of MPS; also relevant to the reader’s interest in the internal fractures of the neoliberal network. — connects to: Founding Mont Pèlerin members became alienated by the society’s later trajectory — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 562; The Mont Pèlerin Society contained rival, incompatible conceptions of the market — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 2126; The Mont Pèlerin Society’s intellectual mission deliberately avoided propaganda roles — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1450 (+1 more)
• SEED: An essay on how the ‘purity versus pragmatism’ split within neoliberalism (MPS vs. Property and Freedom Society) maps onto any ideological movement’s lifecycle could be drawn from this.

Broader Connections

• The Mont Pèlerin Society contained rival, incompatible conceptions of the market #expands (0.78) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2126
• The Mont Pèlerin Society’s intellectual mission deliberately avoided propaganda roles #complicates (0.72) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1450