Bauer’s development papers completed the constitution of neoliberal discourse as economic-first

Evidence

Two papers by Peter Bauer26 in a panel dedicated to underdeveloped countries (chaired by Arthur Shenfield) can easily be considered the most important contributions on the topic at Mont Pèlerin conferences up to that point. Bauer’s work reflects the completion of the original constitution of the neoliberal discourse: economic arguments no longer appeared to be secondary to security concerns. Bauer’s work also more clearly defined the “enemy” (state-led development discourse). — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1313

Categorization

• QUESTION: What exactly constituted the earlier ‘security-primary’ phase of MPS discourse that Bauer’s work superseded?
• XREF: connects to: Neoliberalism pivoted from the economy to the framework encasing it — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the…, 88

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism pivoted from the economy to the framework encasing it #complicates (0.75) — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 88