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Scaling the Heights - Thought Leadership, Liberal Values and the History of The Mont Pelerin Society (Paperback)
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Scaling the Heights - Thought Leadership, Liberal Values and the History of The Mont Pelerin Society (Paperback)
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Loot Price R300
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The Mont Pelerin Society is an august, admired, yet strangely
enigmatic organisation. Perhaps that's because it holds no official
views, formulates no policies and publishes no manifestos. Or
because it doesn't publicise the results of its discussions - and
doesn't even seek agreement among its members. So why does this
singularly low-profile organisation attract distinctly high-profile
members - including distinguished politicians, Pulitzer
Prize-winning writers and journalists and Nobel Prize-winning
economists? Perhaps because, for three quarters of a century, it
has played a crucial role in the battle of ideas - expanding and
deepening liberal philosophy and spreading liberal thought around
the world. In Scaling the Heights, Eamonn Butler traces the history
of the Mont Pelerin Society. He tracks its formation in the wake of
World War II, explores its many internal debates about how
'activist' it should become and explains how it has come to provide
a unique forum for debate, discussion, study and self-education.
But, above all, he celebrates a Society that, for 75 years, has
remained unwaveringly true to its initial vision: to bring together
individuals who seek to defend, support and promote liberal values
- and to keep the intellectual flame of liberalism burning brightly
across the globe.
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