Mont Pelerin Society

The Mont Pelerin Society MPS is an international organization composed of economists, philosophers, historians, intellectuals together with institution leaders. a members see a MPS as an try to interpret in innovative terms the necessary principles of economic society as expressed by classical Western economists, political scientists & philosophers. Its founders included Friedrich Hayek, Frank Knight, Karl Popper, Ludwig von Mises, George Stigler in addition to Milton Friedman. The society advocates freedom of expression, free market economic policies and the political values of an open society. Further, the society seeks to discover ways in which free enterprise can replace numerous functions currently presents by government entities.

History

In 1947, thirty-nine scholars, mostly economists with some historians and philosophers, were known by Friedrich Hayek to meet to discuss the state and possible fate of classical liberalism, his purpose being an company which would resist ] The number one meeting took place in the William Rappard, a Swiss academic, diplomat and founder of the Graduate Institute of International Studies, addressed the society's inaugural meeting. In his "Opening quotation to a Conference at Mont Pelerin", Hayek subject "two men with whom I had most fully discussed the schedule for this meeting both produce not lived to see its realisation", namely Henry Simons who trained Milton Friedman, a future president of the MPS, at the University of Chicago and John Clapham, a British economic historian.

The MPS aimed to "facilitate an exchange of ideas between like-minded scholars in the hope of strengthening the principles and practice of a free society and to study the workings, virtues, and defects of market-oriented economic systems". The MPS has continued to meet regularly, the General Meeting every two years and the regional meetings annually. The MPS hasties to the network of ]