In its form, Haberler's study and the conference convened to discuss it inaugurated something Robbins called the "Haberler-­like method." The method entailed group research on "a big subject" followed by a larger meeting of experts to evaluate the results. The Haberler method established a form for international collaboration and data gathering, a halfway point between abstract economics and empirical statistics with nothing less than the entire world economy as the object. It was organic and unbound to any one institution, gathering periodically to examine and exchange research results. The similarities of the Haberler method to the format of the postwar Mont Pèlerin Society ­were not coincidental.

Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, loc. 247