John Taylor

John Taylor is an American economist, the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at Stanford University and the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution, known for his work in monetary economics and the Taylor rule.

Mont Pelerin Society Organized Classical Liberalism Against Postwar Planning

Hoover Senior Fellow John Taylor recounts the Mont Pelerin Society’s 1947 founding as an organized response to the postwar rise of socialist planning and state intervention. In Taylor’s telling, Friedrich Hayek and the society’s first members were not simply defending markets in economic terms; they were trying to rebuild classical liberalism as an intellectual program for freedom, aimed at the practical policy questions that had made collectivism newly credible.

Hoover InstitutionMay 7, 20264 min read