Newspapers did not report the meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society at Knokke, Belgium, in September. Yet the very fact that some two hundred economists, political scientists and other intellectuals of the non-Communist world were successful in surmounting some trying internal difficulties, and that they engaged in their annual wide-ranging, week-long discussions of world problems, may have considerably more influence on free-world thought than many events considered important by the press at that time.
To understand the significance of the Mont Pelerin Society it is necessary to know a few facts about its beginnings in 1947.
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