A contemporary critic charged neoliberals with insulating themselves from serious outside intellectual challenge

Evidence

Egon Edgar Nawroth emphasized “that neoliberal academics are not so much interested in a serious controversy about the problems raised but rather in a conversation within their own four walls. This essentially amounts to nothing more than relentlessly repeating one’s own theses while ignoring fundamental objections with silence” (Nawroth 1961, 18). — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 578

Categorization

• XREF: Pairs with the later mont-pèlerin historiography about the network’s insularity; useful counterweight to heroic accounts. — connects to: Neoliberalism’s invisibility was manufactured by both its architects and its critics — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 77; Neoliberal intellectuals formed a thought collective as a unit — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 10; Neoliberals selectively attacked intellectuals they disagreed with while keeping their own expertise. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 2166 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberal intellectuals formed a thought collective as a unit #complicates (0.75) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 10
• Neoliberals selectively attacked intellectuals they disagreed with while keeping their own expertise. #exemplifies (0.72) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2166