Who's Afraid of the MPS? A Review Essay: Reinventing liberalism, by Ola Innset, Springer, Cham, 2020, 196 pp., £60 (softcover), ISBN 9783030388874 "Mont Pelèrin 1947", by Bruce Caldwell, paper presented at a Mont Pelèrin meeting on 16 January 2020, CHOPE Working Paper No. 2020-02, 53 pp. https://hope.econ.duke.edu/sites/hope.econ.duke.edu/files/Caldwell%20Chapter%201%20Mont%20Pelerin.pdf

A Review Essay: Reinventing liberalism, by Ola Innset, Springer, Cham, 2020, 196 pp., £60 (softcover), ISBN 9783030388874 "Mont Pelèrin 1947", by Bruce Caldwell, paper presented at a Mont Pelèrin meeting on 16 January 2020, CHOPE Working Paper No. 2020-02, 53 pp. https://hope.econ.duke.edu/sites/hope.econ.duke.edu/files/Caldwell%20Chapter%201%20Mont%20Pelerin.pdf Bruce Caldwell, by contrast, needs no introduction as the premier biographer of Friedrich Hayek; he is also a contemporary member of MPS, to whom he delivered this paper in January 2020. Innset challenges a number of Caldwell's prior statements concerning Hayek, while Caldwell is uncharacteristically dismissive of Innset's book.[1] The contrast is useful, I suggest, to illustrate the I Rashomon i character of the problems of writing a history of Neoliberalism. (cited in Innset, 170) The reason this is significant is that the MPS subsequently had to work out the consequences of this fundamental contradiction at the heart of their program; and they did (although this is not comprehensively covered by either Innset or Caldwell). [Extracted from the article]