Christian Gandil (1986) named several friends he had made among U.S. MPS members and suggested: “the basis for a friendship is to be in agreement concerning outlook of life.” The combination of sometimes even rather close personal ties among people of diverse professional backgrounds provided for a fertile mix of sympathy, respect, and competency prevailing among MPS members, notwithstanding occasional episodes suggesting the opposite.

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 127