Mont Pelerin Society

Mont Pelerin Society
Abbreviation	MPS
Formation	1947
Type	Economic policy think tank
Headquarters	Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, U.S.
President	Vacant; (Gabriel Calzada, Guatemala (Acting President, December 2021–Present))
Revenue (2015)	$165,781
Expenses (2015)	$113,886
Website	montpelerin.org

The Mont Pelerin Society (MPS), founded in 1947, is an international organization of economists, philosophers, historians, intellectuals and business leaders. It has been described as neoliberal in its ideological orientation, though some scholars claim that it is classically liberal.^[2] It is headquartered at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6] The society advocates freedom of expression, free market economic policies and the political values of an open society. Further, the society seeks to discover ways in which the private sector can replace many functions currently provided by government entities.

^ ^a ^b The Mont Pèlerin Society (2015). Return of organization exempt from income tax [Form 990]. Foundation Center.
^ Higgs, Robert (1997). "Fifty Years of the Mont Pèlerin Society". The Independent Review. 1 (4): 623–625. ISSN 1086-1653.
^ Mirowski, Philip; Plehwe , Dieter (2009). The Road From Mont Pèlerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective. Harvard University Press. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-674-03318-4. United under the umbrella of the MPS since 1947, neoliberals mobilized for the first time a directed capacity for changing the world under peacetime conditions without the interruptions created by war and emigration
^ Mirowski & Plehwe 2009, p. 5: "The Mont Pèlerin Society and related networks of neoliberal partisan think tanks can serve as a directory of organized neoliberalism"
^ Slobodian, Quinn (2018). Globalists: The End of Empire and the Rise of Neoliberalism. Harvard University Press. p. 126. ISBN 978-0674979529. The postwar neoliberal movement was born in the midst of the ITO drama, and some of its members played a starring role in it. As delegates met in Geneva in the spring of 1947 to draft the world trade charter, a group of intellectuals gathered at the other end of the lake at the base of Mont Pèlerin. Taking their name from the location, the Mont Pèlerin Society (MPS) became the germ of what its organizer Hayek called 'the neoliberal movement.'
^ Biebricher, Thomas (2018). The Political Theory of Neoliberalism. Stanford University Press. p. 13. ISBN 9781503607835. It took almost a decade after the Colloque [Walter Lippmann] for a similar meeting to take place —the second birth of neoliberalism, if you will— in April 1947, when sixty participants gathered in Switzerland to form the Mont Pelerin Society (MPS), which, to this day, is considered to represent a 'neoliberal international'

[Ratings-1] The Mont Pèlerin Society (2015). Return of organization exempt from income tax [Form 990]. Foundation Center.

[2] Higgs, Robert (1997). "Fifty Years of the Mont Pèlerin Society". The Independent Review. 1 (4): 623–625. ISSN 1086-1653.

[3] Mirowski, Philip; Plehwe , Dieter (2009). The Road From Mont Pèlerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective. Harvard University Press. p. 10. ISBN 978-0-674-03318-4. United under the umbrella of the MPS since 1947, neoliberals mobilized for the first time a directed capacity for changing the world under peacetime conditions without the interruptions created by war and emigration

[FOOTNOTEMirowskiPlehwe20095-4] Mirowski & Plehwe 2009, p. 5: "The Mont Pèlerin Society and related networks of neoliberal partisan think tanks can serve as a directory of organized neoliberalism"

[slobodian-5] Slobodian, Quinn (2018). Globalists: The End of Empire and the Rise of Neoliberalism. Harvard University Press. p. 126. ISBN 978-0674979529. The postwar neoliberal movement was born in the midst of the ITO drama, and some of its members played a starring role in it. As delegates met in Geneva in the spring of 1947 to draft the world trade charter, a group of intellectuals gathered at the other end of the lake at the base of Mont Pèlerin. Taking their name from the location, the Mont Pèlerin Society (MPS) became the germ of what its organizer Hayek called 'the neoliberal movement.'

[6] Biebricher, Thomas (2018). The Political Theory of Neoliberalism. Stanford University Press. p. 13. ISBN 9781503607835. It took almost a decade after the Colloque [Walter Lippmann] for a similar meeting to take place —the second birth of neoliberalism, if you will— in April 1947, when sixty participants gathered in Switzerland to form the Mont Pelerin Society (MPS), which, to this day, is considered to represent a 'neoliberal international'

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Abbreviation	MPS
Formation	1947; 77 years ago (1947)
Type	Economic policy think tank
Headquarters	Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, U.S.
President	Vacant (Gabriel Calzada, Guatemala (Acting President, December 2021–Present))
Revenue (2015)	$165,781^[1]
Expenses (2015)	$113,886^[1]
Website	montpelerin.org