The road from Mont Pèlerin : the making of the neoliberal thought collective

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Author:

Mirowski, Philip, 1951-

ISBN:

9780674033184

Publication Information:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.

Physical Description:

vi, 469 p. ; 25 cm.

Contents:

Introduction / Dieter Plehwe -- French neoliberalism and its divisions : from the Colloque Walter Lippmann to the Fifth Republic / François Denord -- Liberalism and neoliberalism in Britain, 1930-1980 / Keith Tribe -- Neoliberalism in Germany : revisiting the ordoliberal foundations of the social market economy / Ralf Ptak -- The rise of the Chicago School of Economics and the birth of neoliberalism / Rob van Horn and Philip Mirowski -- The neoliberals confront the trade unions / Yves Steiner -- Reinventing monopoly and the role of corporations : the roots of Chicago law and economics / Rob van Horn -- The origins of the neoliberal economic development discourse / Dieter Plehwe -- Business conservatives and the Mont Pèlerin Society / Kim Phillips-Fein -- The influence of neoliberals in Chile before, during, and after Pinochet / Karin Fischer -- Taking aim at the new international economic order / Jennifer Bair -- How neoliberalism makes its world : the urban property rights project in Peru / Timothy Mitchell -- Postface : defining neoliberalism / Philip Mirowski.

Subject Term:

Neoliberalism.

Neoliberalism -- Case studies.

Added Author:

Mirowski, Philip, 1951-

Plehwe, Dieter.

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Summary

What exactly is neoliberalism, and where did it come from? This volume attempts to answer these questions by exploring neoliberalism's origins and growth as a political and economic movement.

Although modern neoliberalism was born at the "Colloque Walter Lippmann" in 1938, it only came into its own with the founding of the Mont Pèlerin Society, a partisan "thought collective," in Vevey, Switzerland, in 1947. Its original membership was made up of transnational economists and intellectuals, including Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, George Stigler, Karl Popper, Michael Polanyi, and Luigi Einaudi. From this small beginning, their ideas spread throughout the world, fostering, among other things, the political platforms of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan and the Washington Consensus.

The Road from Mont Pèlerin presents the key debates and conflicts that occurred among neoliberal scholars and their political and corporate allies regarding trade unions, development economics, antitrust policies, and the influence of philanthropy. The book captures the depth and complexity of the neoliberal "thought collective" while examining the numerous ways that neoliberal discourse has come to shape the global economy.