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Title: Mont Pèlerin Society records
Date (inclusive): 1945-1991
Collection number: 81123
Creator:
Mont Pelerin Society
Collection Size:
136 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize box, 1 card file box, 10 envelopes
(57.6 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Correspondence, conference papers, programs, schedules, minutes, financial records, printed matter, sound recordings, and
photographs, relating to economic policy, laissez-faire, and liberty.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages:
German,
English,
and French.
Collection is open for research.
The Hoover Institution Archives only allows access to
copies of audiovisual items. To listen to sound recordings or to view videos or films during your visit, please contact the Archives
at least two working days before your arrival. We will then advise you of the accessibility of the material you wish to see
or hear. Please note that not all audiovisual material is immediately accessible.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives.
[Identification of item], Mont Pèlerin Society records, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired.
Increments may have been received since this finding aid was prepared. Please check Stanford University's online catalog at
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ to find the full extent of the collection.
International organization of laissez-faire economists.
The first installment of the Mont Pèlerin Society records held at the Hoover Institution Archives was received in 1981 and
described in a preliminary inventory that is now superseded by the present register.
Those initial records consisted mainly of Albert Hunold's correspondence, which now constitutes the bulk of the correspondence
series, and of his files relating to the general and regional meetings he organized as secretary of the society from 1948
to 1960, which are to be found in the meetings series and which also includes material relating to subsequent meetings up
to 1990. It should be noted that the correspondence for the first meeting in 1947 also contains important letters dating back
to 1945 regarding the founding of the Society.
The remaining of Albert Hunold's papers received in 1981 is to be found in the office file, particularly the circulars and
minutes of meetings. Also included are issues of
The Mont Pèlerin Quarterly, edited by Hunold, and his 1962 writing "How the Mont Pèlerin Society Lost Its Soul," which gives his perspective on the
so-called "Hunold Affair."
Later, in 1987, the Hoover Archives received the papers of several treasurers of the society, which can be found in the treasurers'
file. Here too, the correspondence of these officers is particularly noteworthy, as is the correspondence with foundations,
especially the Relm Foundation, regarding travel and other grants for members of the Society. Financial records and other
materials relating to the meetings, however, were added to the meetings series.
The records in the smaller newsletter file, received in 1995, are also interesting, especially for the correspondence of Eric
Brodin, one of the editors of
The Mont Pèlerin Society Newsletter.
Finally, the collection includes a large amount of photographs, film strips, and phonotapes, mostly relating to the Society's
meetings.
Researchers interested in the activities of the society should also consult the Friedrich A. von Hayek papers at the Hoover
Archives, particularly its series on the Mont Pèlerin Society in boxes 71-89, as well as the papers of several other prominent
members such as John Davenport, Milton Friedman, Gottfried Haberler, F. A. Harper, Fritz Machlup, G. Warren Nutter, Karl Popper,
Gordon Tullock.
Also available for consultation in the reading room of the Hoover Archives is the excellent book by R. M. Hartwell,
A History of the Mont Pèlerin Society (1995), from which much of the information in the Historical Note is drawn.
Additional records of the Mont Pèlerin Society were received by the archives in 2011 from Edwin J. Feulner, the Treasurer
of the Mont Pèlerin Society. The documents cover aspects of the Society's activities from 1974 to 2001, particularly meetings,
membership, fellowships and awards. The papers are in roughly chronological order.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the repository's online public access catalog.
Economic policy.
Laissez-faire.
Liberty.
Economists.
Phonotapes.