Each discipline’s biases shape how it studies the neoliberal network

Evidence

Historians of ideas still prefer individual authors and books over social and conceptual history; sociologists seem to consider other social formations more important than institutionalized neoliberal networks when it comes to their relevance to political change; historians of economics can’t let go of their obsessions with Hayek and Friedman; while social geographers foster a keen curiosity for the local Monts, which can come at the expense of interest in the larger community of Pèlerins. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 7

Categorization

• XREF: Relates to the broader historiography-of-ideas literature and to how disciplinary lenses shape intellectual history, echoing themes in other works the reader has examined. — connects to: Neoliberalism can be studied despite mutating by tracking its institutions, members, and texts — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 144