Abstract
Review of Ola Innset’s Reinventing Liberalism. The Politics, Philosophy and Economics of Early Neoliberalism (1920–1947). Cham: Springer, 2020, 207 pp.
Highlights
By retracing the steps of self-proclaimed neoliberals, they have detected an international network of neoliberal think-tanks of which the Mont Pèlerin Society, named after the Swiss Alpine village where it was established, is generally regarded as the central hub
They did so by means of a network of think-tanks, and according to most scholars the Mont Pèlerin Society was the cornerstone of this international network
Where better to look than at the society’s inaugural conference, which lasted a full two weeks? as Innset himself observes, “anyone who has been to a meeting or conference with more than a couple of people who are perfectly in tune with each other knows that these sorts of events are almost always somewhat disappointing” (170). This is Innset’s challenge: the central importance attributed to the Mont Pèlerin Society justifies his study, but the author is well aware of the fact that conferences are of limited importance in themselves
Summary
In Reinventing Liberalism, a book based on his doctoral dissertation, the Norwegian historian Ola Innset provides a detailed analysis of the society’s inaugural meeting in 1947. Innset tackles this issue in the first part of his book by linking the first meeting of the Mont Pèlerin Society to a longer historical trajectory.
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