The Mont Pelerin Society (MPS) is an intellectual society founded in 1947 in Switzerland by a pioneering and multidisciplinary group of classical liberal thinkers including Milton Friedman, Karl Popper, Michael Polanyi and many others. They were brought together by Friedrich Hayek who believed that the central values of civilization and open societies were in danger.
Though not necessarily sharing a common interpretation, either of causes or consequences, they see danger in the expansion of government, not least in state welfare, in the power of trade unions and business monopolies, and in the continuing threat and reality of inflation.
The MPS do not intend to create an orthodoxy, to form or align itself with any political party or parties, or to conduct propaganda. Its sole objective is 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.
Members, who have included 9 Nobel prize recipients, journalists, economic and financial experts, high government officials and legal scholars from all over the world, come regularly together to present the most current analysis of ideas, trends and events.
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