Early French neoliberals drew simultaneously on Keynes, Hayek, Wicksell, and Myrdal

Evidence

Marjolin worked as chief assistant for Charles Rist’s research institute at the time of the colloquium. Rist was certainly among the intellectual influences on Marjolin, who was otherwise inspired in his economic thinking by both Keynes and Hayek as well as Knut Wicksell, Gunnar Myrdal, and John Hicks. At the time of the WLC, Marjolin had just turned twenty-seven and he was already a specialist in macroeconomics and business cycle theory as well as the relation between socially conscious politics and liberal markets. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 381

Categorization

• XREF: Marjolin’s simultaneous debts to Keynes and Hayek support the book’s wider argument that early neoliberalism was not a pure anti-Keynesian bloc — fractures the crude ‘neoliberals vs Keynes’ binary. — connects to: Early neoliberals steered boom policy while Keynesians amended busts — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 394; Anti-Keynesianism and Austrian marginalism unite the two neo-liberalisms — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at…, 527

Broader Connections

• Anti-Keynesianism and Austrian marginalism unite the two neo-liberalisms #qualifies (0.72) — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 527