A prominent free-market economist pioneered battery hen farming in Britain

Evidence

Fisher had ended up in farming and introduced battery hen farming to Britain—an innovation that from today’s perspective is suggestive of the priority neoliberals gave to economic efficiency over wider political liberties as articulated in modern debates on animal rights. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 491

Categorization

• SEED: Essay angle: the founder of battery hens as a lens on how efficiency-reasoning in the neoliberal tradition collides with animal-welfare politics today.