The road from Mont Pèlerin : the making of the neoliberal thought collective
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The road from Mont Pèlerin : the making of the neoliberal thought collective
Harvard University Press, 2009
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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 Pelerin 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 Pelerin 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.
Table of Contents
* Introduction Dieter Plehwe Part I. Origins of National Traditions * French Neoliberalism and Its Divisions: From the Colloque Walter Lippmann to the Fifth Republic Francois 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 Philip Mirowski and Rob van Horn Part II. Arguing out Strategies on Targeted Topics * The Neoliberals Confront the Trades Unions Yves Steiner * Reinventing Monopoly and the Role of Corporations: Chicago School of Law and Economics Rob van Horn * The Origins of Neoliberal Economic Development Discourse Dieter Plehwe * Business Conservatives and the Mont Pelerin Society Kim Phillips-Fein Part III. Mobilizations for Action * 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 a World: The Urban Property Project in Peru Tim Mitchell * Postface: Defining Neoliberalism Philip Mirowski * Index
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