Brazil’s early neoliberal intellectuals entered MPS through peripheral engagement

Evidence

E. Gudin (1886–1986), an engineer by training, taught economics and served in the Ministry of Agriculture. He was a Brazilian delegate to the IMF Directorate from 1951 to 1956, and he was vice president of the International Economic Association in 1959. Gudin joined MPS in 1954. Beyond one paper and two further interventions in Princeton, no further record of interventions exists at general meetings. Together with Roberto Campos and José Merquior he was one of the most important neoliberal intellectuals in Brazil (Gros 2003, 123). — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1360

Categorization

• XREF: Latin American neoliberal intellectuals as MPS members connects to the study of neoliberal reform politics in Brazil under the military regime. — connects to: MPS members circulated neoliberal ideas through sympathetic periodicals like Farmand — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1182; Neoliberalism is activated from below by social actors, not merely imposed from above — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 530

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism is activated from below by social actors, not merely imposed from above #expands (0.75) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 530