With the conclusion of the war, many forces conspired to bring the neoliberals together once more to try and organize the movement. Under the leadership of Albert Hunold and Friedrich August von Hayek, a number of loosely connected neoliberal intellectuals in Europe and the United States assembled in Mont Pèlerin, a village close to Lake Geneva. From Tuesday, April 1, to Thursday, April 10, 1947, the first gathering took place at the Hôtel du Parc. The internationalist outlook and organizational effort were made possible through some timely corporate/institutional support. The Foundation for Economic Education in Irvington-on-Hudson, New York, which employed Ludwig von Mises, and the William Volker Fund based in Kansas City, provided subsidies. The Volker Fund was led by future MPS member Harold Luhnow, and it provided travel funds for the U.S. participants in the meeting. The Schweizerische Kreditanstalt (today known as Credit Swiss) paid 93 percent of the total conference costs—18,062.08 Swiss francs (Steiner 2007; Walpen 2004b).

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 117