Recent scholarship has clarified the character of business relations of Mont Pèlerin intellectuals in the UK (Rollings, forthcoming), which is highly welcome material to further examine the relations between Mont Pèlerin, business interests, and struggles within the bourgeoisie, for example. Neither “independence” nor simple “instrumentality” will help to better explain the complicated relations between neoliberals and corporate interests. The strategic payoffs as well as the limits of the relations between neoliberals and capitalists should be more carefully explored.

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 31