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William Volker Fund Closes After Financing Chicago School and Mont Pelerin Society

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The William Volker Fund closes after serving as the primary libertarian organization with significant funding throughout the 1940s-1950s, having played a key role in developing the modern libertarian movement by financing the Chicago School of economics, the Mont Pelerin Society, and free-market …

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