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Innset summarizes the second week’s discussions on issues such as the power of trade unions , countercyclical policies, agriculture and poverty. The discussions show that in spite of wanting to use the state to create a modern social order , the early neoliberals were in no way social liberals. The majority of attendees were placed squarely on the political right, and the few more centrist attendees disappeared from the organization shortly after 1947. Innset also summarizes the discussions surrounding a statement of aims and a naming of the society and provides data on numbers of interventions and average speaking time for the different attendees.
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Liberaal Archief, Mont Pelerin Society, Box 1, “Mont Pèlerin 1947”.
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London School of Economics Library and Archives, Lionel Robins Collection, Box 128.
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Liberaal Archief, Mont Pelerin Society, Box 1 (Mont Pèlerin 1947).
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Liberaal Archief, Mont Pelerin Society, Box 1, “Mont Pèlerin 1947”.
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Liberaal Archief, Mont Pelerin Society, Box 1 (Mont Pèlerin 1947).
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Liberaal Archief, Mont Pelerin Society, Box 1 (Mont Pèlerin, 1947).
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Hoover Library and Archives, “Mont Pelerin Society”, Box 29, Folder 4, “Hunold—Morley”.
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Rubenstein Library and Archives, Maurice Allais Collection, Folder 39 (P) “Fédération, août—septembre 1947—31–32”.
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A method which is far from perfect for several reasons, but still tells us something. Some of the pages of the minutes are in smaller print than others, and some parts of the discussions were only transcribed by Dorothy Hahn in keywords. Other pages of the minutes of the discussion are lost, and this is also the case with a couple of the introductions, in which case I have counted an average number of lines per introduction into the speaking time of those holding introductions that did not hand in manuscripts (Carlo Antoni, Bertrand de Jouvenel, Walter Eucken).
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Hoover Library and Archives, “Mont Pelerin Society”, Box 29, Folder 5, “Hunold-Read”.
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Hunold made one remark in the first session regarding the use of English as the conference language.
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Hoover Library and Archives, “Mont Pelerin Society”, Box 29, Folder 4, “Hunold—Polanyi”.
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Hoover Library and Archives, “Mont Pelerin Society”, Box 29, Folder 3, “Hunold—Hazlitt”.
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Hoover Library and Archives, “Mont Pelerin Society, Box 1, Folder 1, “Booklets”.
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Hoover Library and Archives, “Mont Pelerin Society”, Box 29, Folder 3, “Hunold—Hazlitt”.
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Hoover Institution Library and Archives, “Mont Pelerin Society, Box 29, Folder 1, “Hunold—Courtin”.
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Hoover Institution Library and Archives, “Mont Pelerin Society, Box 1, Folder 1, “Booklets”.
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Innset, O. (2020). The Second Week. In: Reinventing Liberalism. Springer Studies in the History of Economic Thought. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38885-0_8
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