A transnational intellectual network deliberately reversed the growth of government and rebuilt free-market support.

Evidence

Their narrative relies, ironically, on precisely the relationship between ideas and po liti cal change that Keynes cited as a rationale for his confi dence that laissezfaire was on the wane. The shift in pop u lar approaches to the market occurred on many levels, and many actors and institutions played constitutive roles, but it could not have occurred without the committed efforts of a transnational community of ideas. Much as Keynes worked, with manifest success, to develop and disseminate an understanding of advantageous ways in which the public sector could intervene, a network of phi los o phers, economists, journalists, and private foundations across the Atlantic world coalesced with the common goal of reversing the growth of government and rebuilding public support for freemarket ideas. As distant colleagues they had weathered depression and war; in future years they would experience perceptions of public irrelevance, impediments to academic advancement, countless po liti cal defeats, and, eventually, an extraordinarily rapid institutional and ideological ascent. — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, 21

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes the framing of the market turn as a coordinated, idea-driven counter-Keynesian project rather than an accidental drift.
• XREF: connects to: Neoliberalism rose to hegemony through transnational networks of scholars and allies — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 81; The early neoliberal network deliberately concealed its political-bias intentions from the public — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 1829; Hayek believed durable intellectual movements require cross-disciplinary transnational support networks — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 238 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism rose to hegemony through transnational networks of scholars and allies #expands (0.92) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 81
• Hayek believed durable intellectual movements require cross-disciplinary transnational support networks #corroborates (0.85) — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, 238
• Neoliberal network activity blurred boundaries between national schools of thought #expands (0.80) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 559
• The early neoliberal network deliberately concealed its political-bias intentions from the public #expands (0.75) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 1829