Because of the way the lines were being drawn, it is not surprising that those who financially supported the antiunion economic discourses and those who operated through anticommunist organizations or free market institutions, like the FEE, turned out to be one and the same. It was the case for J. Howard Pew (Sun Oil Company) and Jasper E. Crane (DuPont), two major funders behind MPS activities. In the 1930s, both men initiated the earliest campaigns against the New Deal via the National Association of Manufacturers. Fiercely anticommunist, Pew and Crane invested in FEE and its campaigns in favor of free enterprise ideology (see Chapter 8 by Phillips-Fein in this volume). In 1947, Crane became a MPS member; Pew did as well in 1954. Both had been major donors to the MPS since 1958.

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 972