The Mont Pèlerin Society and related networks of neoliberal partisan think tanks can serve as a directory of organized neoliberalism because it is part of a rather novel structure of intellectual discourse. It has been designed to advance and integrate various types of specialized knowledge within and across the confines of philosophy, academic research in economics, history, sociology, and applied policy knowledge in its various forms. … The neoliberal thought collective was structured along different lines from those pursued by the other “epistemic communities” that sought to change people’s minds in the second half of the twentieth century. The international academy Hayek sought was actually designed to create a space where like-minded people who shared philosophical ideas and political ideals could mingle and engage in a process of further education and collective learning dedicated to advancing a common neoliberal cause. The effort of the incipient neoliberal thought collective led to the creation of a comprehensive transnational discourse community.

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 85