Early neoliberalism grew out of League of Nations institutional networks

Evidence

Early neoliberalism was embedded in the transnational networks of expertise emerging in the 1930s in a number of ways. It was embedded institutionally through the League of Nations, its consultative bodies of the ICIC and the IIIC, and was particularly inspired by the ISC, linked to and developed in dialogue with the newly forming discipline of international studies. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 403

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s map of neoliberal intellectual origins — situates it inside interwar international organizations rather than postwar think tanks. — connects to: Neoliberals rejected European integration because the League’s voluntary model had already failed — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the…, 604; Neoliberalism’s core concepts formed in the 1930s through networked institutions — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 352; Hayek’s institute drove the League of Nations’ Danubian Economic Study. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 397 (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• League of Nations fostered an early global social science network ahead of neoliberalism. #corroborates (0.90) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 29
• Neoliberalism rose to hegemony through transnational networks of scholars and allies #expands (0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 81
• Key ordoliberal and Austrian thinkers were funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and League #exemplifies (0.85) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 376
• Neoliberalism’s spread depended on transnational discourse networks rather than national institutions alone #expands (0.80) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2118
• Interwar Vienna produced the extra-academic intellectual networks that seeded neoliberalism #qualifies (0.80) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 101