World War II isolation compelled émigré economists to shift from advocacy to survival.

Evidence

Their intellectual priorities had shifted, commensurately, from propagation to preservation, and the simple act of maintaining contact with the outside world became a daily struggle. Hayek, in par tic u lar, lamented his diffi culties in preserving extranational relationships and sources of information. “Correspondence with America takes a very long time and is unreliable, foreign books are of course about impossible to get and one begins to be really poor,” he told Röpke in April 1941. — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, 202

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: World War II scattered early neoliberal organizers and recast their enemy as socialist planning — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 111; Wartime disruption generated a postwar window of optimism for liberal reconstruction — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 219

Broader Connections

• World War II scattered early neoliberal organizers and recast their enemy as socialist planning #expands (0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 111
• Wartime disruption generated a postwar window of optimism for liberal reconstruction #corroborates (0.75) — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, 219