Friedrich Hayek person
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Mont Pelerin Society member_of
Friedrich Hayek documented
“Back to the seeds sown in the late 1940s by Hayek and his fellow members of the Mount Polloran Society. Agreeing on proper terminology was one of their first tasks. And again, I can't say this enough. The focus on language by these people i…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War #13 @ 5:39
Mont Pelerin Society founded
Friedrich Hayek documented
“was at the behest of Hayek. He was an Austrian economist. Now, I have to preface everything that we're going to talk about today with the fact that so many of the cast of characters came from Austria. That is where we found Otto Skorzeny, a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War #13 @ 1:28
Friedrich Hayek founded
Mont Pelerin Society documented
“was at the behest of Hayek. He was an Austrian economist. Now, I have to preface everything that we're going to talk about today with the fact that so many of the cast of characters came from Austria. That is where we found Otto Skorzeny, a…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War #13 @ 1:28
Friedrich Hayek appointed
University of Chicago documented
“and when Volker died in 1947, he was also put in charge of the company's philanthropic trust, the Volker Fund. He decided to begin sponsoring Hayek, and among the first things that he did was go to the meeting at Mount Polaren Society. The …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War #13 @ 17:28
Friedrich Hayek founded
Mont Pelerin Society host_asserted
“of political environment. And so again, Hayek himself created this organization and the use of the organization behind the scenes was very different from what he espoused publicly. That's kind of the takeaway. And to me, the importance of t…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War #13 @ 1:15:58
Friedrich Hayek member_of
London School of Economics documented
“became a major theme. Hayek's colleague at the London School of Economics wrote him that the most important mission for a new international academy of political philosophy would be to strengthen democracy throughout post-war Europe. In the …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War #13 @ 33:23
Mont Pelerin Society funded
Friedrich Hayek documented
“So they're going to go out and look for people to sponsor this complete propaganda machine. Hayek received most of his initial funding for Mount Pelerin Society from a group of Midwestern U.S. businessmen keen to gather intellectual firepow…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War #13 @ 11:50
Harold Luhnow funded
Friedrich Hayek documented
“and when Volker died in 1947, he was also put in charge of the company's philanthropic trust, the Volker Fund. He decided to begin sponsoring Hayek, and among the first things that he did was go to the meeting at Mount Polaren Society. The …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner Transnational Anticommunism&Cold War #13 @ 17:28
Mentions (25)
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And I definitely want to get to our next book. I am chomping at the bit to do that. So this next chapter talks about the Pelerin, P-E-L-E-R-I-N Society, Mont Pelerin Society. And it focuses on a guy by the name of Hayek, H-…
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A-Y-E-K. So I'm not exactly sure. Again, it's a French name, if that's how you pronounce it. But that's how we're going to pronounce it today. And it goes back to March of 1947. So this is, you know, in close proximity to the end of World W…
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was at the behest of Hayek. He was an Austrian economist. Now, I have to preface everything that we're going to talk about today with the fact that so many of the cast of characters came from Austria. That is where we found Otto Skorzeny, a…
▶ 5:39
Back to the seeds sown in the late 1940s by Hayek and his fellow members of the Mount Polloran Society. Agreeing on proper terminology was one of their first tasks. And again, I can't say this enough. The focus on language by these people i…
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Neither Hayek nor any other of the leading members described themselves as neoliberal. They wanted to have the description of themselves as classical liberal. Hayek managed, in the words of Jamie Peck, to establish a, quote, transatlantic s…
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Hayek's ambition to move beyond the marginalization is what primarily drove this group. Mount Pelerin could create a long-term strategy for intellectual dominance along the lines of what socialist organizations such as the British Fabian So…
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So they are modeling their initiative off of the Fabian Society. Hayek would elaborate on why he and his associates wanted to emulate what had been done a generation before. In an essay that was entitled The Intellectuals and Socialism, he …
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In every country that has moved towards socialism, the phase in development in which socialism becomes a determining influence on politics has been preceded for many years by a period during which socialist ideas governed the thinking of ac…
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while the U.S. had not. He also noted that once this phase had been reached, it was merely a question of time until the views held by intellectuals become the governing force of politics. So he is admittedly trying to have an overarching gr…
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At these meetings, the thinkers could meet influential journalists, educators, and politicians, the people who would help shape common values and perceptions. And I have said this for a very long time since starting this initiative. This is…
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So they're going to go out and look for people to sponsor this complete propaganda machine. Hayek received most of his initial funding for Mount Pelerin Society from a group of Midwestern U.S. businessmen keen to gather intellectual firepow…
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owners of DuPont Chemical and Jasper Crane, who had retired after a long service as executive vice president of that company. These men were convinced that the creation of a new intellectual counter-establishment could help recreate faith i…
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would work towards that goal. Hayek had become a household name among American conservatives in 1945 with his book, The Road to Surfton. It was published in the United States. The book actually became a bestseller. There was a condensed ver…
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And again, that was when we were we grew up very poor, but we had Reader's Digest in our house all the time. My mom loved that. And now that I know what it was all about, it's crazy how I mean, it's it's so apparent how we were all brainwas…
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was that countries such as Great Britain and the U.S. were most likely to be taken down an unforeseen road to totalitarianism by well-meaning Democrats adopting planning in their attempt to promote the general welfare of a nation, rather th…
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consequence of the way in which economic planning would ultimately change the social and moral values of a nation. The road to serfdom was that no stable middle ground existed between unconditional faith in planning and unconditional faith …
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Hayek did not argue that planning equal totalitarianism, but rather that it created an alternative in the character of the people that would create the social and moral climate of a totalitarian state. The American response to Hayek's book …
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In the political awakening, Hayek soon found himself on a national book tour. In New York City, some 3,000 people showed up to listen to him speak. When Hayek began promoting his plans for an international academy of political philosophy, i…
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recommending happen with the collusion of an international body. Americans had a lot to learn from European liberals who had supposedly seen the true face of centralized power. So they're using World War II as the backdrop to convince every…
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Mount Pelerin in 1947, quote, for the inhabitants of a free country, it seems almost impossible to understand the process first by which freedom is lost, unquote. In other words, the purpose of a transatlantic gathering was not just to prom…
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and when Volker died in 1947, he was also put in charge of the company's philanthropic trust, the Volker Fund. He decided to begin sponsoring Hayek, and among the first things that he did was go to the meeting at Mount Polaren Society. The …
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at the University of Chicago, thus beginning his ensconcement into the very fabric of America. The conservative funds had secured Ludwig von Mises a position as visiting professor at New York University as well. Other Austrian economists wh…
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and delayed the implementation of their ideas. The meeting at Mount Pelerin continued where it had left off. The group that met at Mount Pelerin in 1947 included prominent intellectuals like Raymond Aron, A-R-O-N, Maurice Alice, A-L-L-A-I-S…
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reinforcing the views that they want everybody to have. European and American schools of liberalism were present at the meeting, such as the Austrian school, which was originally centered on Vienna, but largely transplanted to the United St…
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Justice Hayek himself and a number of other participants shared the idea that the cultural traditions of Christianity could make up for the creative destruction of capitalism. So they wanted to use the face of Christianity while at the same…