Occasionally, there are uplifting moments


This evening, I met Esca Hayek, FA’s daughter-in-law, at the IEA and I was invited to attend the Mont Pelerin Society next year in Istanbul. I also learned of a range of initiatives to spread good ideas about the principles of civilised society.

From the MPS website:

After World War II, in 1947, when many of the values of Western civilization were imperiled, 36 scholars, mostly economists, with some historians and philosophers, were invited by Professor Friedrich von Hayek to meet at Mont Pelerin, near Montreux, Switzerland, to discuss the state and the possible fate of liberalism (in its classical sense) in thinking and practice.

The group described itself as the Mont Pelerin Society, after the place of the first meeting. It emphasised that it did not intend to create an orthodoxy, to form or align itself with any political party or parties, or to conduct propaganda. Its sole objective was 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.

Some things give me hope.

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