Contrary to the conviction of many on the left that neoliberalism is an ideology "made in USA," fifteen of twenty-four MPS presidents have been European, and six have come from the United States (see Table I.1). Of the remaining three presidents, two were from Latin America and one from Japan. So far only Europeans have served as secretaries of the MPS, though all of the five treasurers were citizens or permanent residents (Fritz Machlup) of the United States. Twenty-seven general meetings between 1947 and 2004 took place in Europe compared to just four in the United States and one each in Canada, Chile, Hong Kong, and Japan (Walpen 2004a, 389).

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 123