Until the 1980s the MPS network reliably identified genuine neoliberal actors

Evidence

Consequently, in this volume we made use of the Mont Pèlerin Society network of organized neoliberal intellectuals and closely related roster of neoliberal partisan think tanks as our Rosetta Stone, a handy detection device to identify the relevant actors, and their linkages to other organizations and institutions. At least until the 1980s—when the advance of neoliberal ideas led to a rapid multiplication of pretenders to the title of progenitors of neoliberalism—the MPS network can be safely used as cipher to decode with sufficient precision the neoliberal thought style in the era of its genesis. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2113

Categorization

• QUESTION: What happened after the 1980s that multiplied ‘pretenders to the title of progenitors of neoliberalism’? Worth chasing the historiographical scramble over origins.
• XREF: connects to: Neoliberal political success hollowed out the MPS into a status symbol — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 508

Broader Connections

• Neoliberal political success hollowed out the MPS into a status symbol #complicates (0.80) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 508