Abstract
Innset situates early neoliberalism and the Mont Pelerin conference in debates about post-war European reconstruction. Before the war, Hayek had help up federation as a means to curb independent nation states democratic power to carry out economic planning , and at the 1947 meeting the benefits and chances of a European federation were discussed in more detail. The chapter also provides information about the conference attendees excursions to historical sites of great symbolic importance to the neoliberals reinvention of liberalism.
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Notes
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Liberaal Archief, Mont Pelerin Society, Box 1, Folder 1: “Mont Pèlerin, 1947”.
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Most of this information this is based on is acquired from Hoover Archives, Mont Pelerin Society Collection, Box 1, Folder 1: “Booklets”.
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Yale University Library, Walter Lippmann papers, Selected correspondence 1931–1974, Folder 1848: Louis Rougier.
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Yale University Library, Walter Lippmann papers, Selected correspondence 1931–1974, Box 10, Folder 11: Hayek.
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Yale University Library, Walter Lippmann papers, Selected correspondence 1931–1974, Box 10, Folder 11: Hayek.
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There is no manuscript for Röpke’s introduction, so again I will paraphrase his remarks based on the minutes kept by Mrs. Hahn. Liberaal Archief, Mont Pelerin Society, Box 1, Folder 1: “Mont Pèlerin 1947”.
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Liberaal Archief, Mont Pelerin Society, Box 1, Folder 1: “Mont Pèlerin, 1947”.
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London School of Economics Library and Archives, Lionel Robbins Collection, Box 10, Folder 2, “Excursions”.
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London School of Economics Library and Archives, Lionel Robbins Collection, Box 10, Folder 2, “Excursions”.
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London School of Economics Library and Archives, Lionel Robbins Collection, Box 10, Folder 2, “Excursions”.
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Innset, O. (2020). A New Europe. In: Reinventing Liberalism. Springer Studies in the History of Economic Thought. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38885-0_7
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