Another Nobel for freedom. (Mont Pelerin Society's 1986 meeting)

From: National Review | Date: February 13, 1987| Author: | Copyright information

ANOTHER NOBEL FOR FREEDOM

THE MONT PELERIN Society's 1986meeting was held in a most goregeous Alpine setting at St. Vincent, Italy, just down the road from the Italian side of Mont Blanc. From this high point the society, which was founded in a similar mountain retreat in Switzerland in 1947, proceeded to survey not only the world but its own past.

There was one session devoted to R.M. Hartwell's preliminary report on the history of the society. Other sessions discussed the legacies of various Mont Pelerians of importance--Bruno Leoni, who held the society together when ...

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