Early ordoliberal sympathy for unions disappeared from later MPS views

Evidence

In his view, the legal disarmament of trade unions was not the essence of a free society, but rather its repudiation. Inside the MPS, this perspective tended to disappear in the 1960s, as political “freedom” became increasingly conflated with economic freedom for the capitalist. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 977

Categorization

• XREF: A shift in the MPS’s internal climate that plausibly pairs with Mirowski’s account of how the society narrowed to a market-fundamentalist position after its founding decade. — connects to: Early MPS figures endorsed labor participation in business as a counterweight to state intervention — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 961; Ordoliberals dated the transformance of unions to after World War I — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 964; MPS founders disagreed sharply over whether unions were inherently harmful. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1004

Broader Connections

• MPS founders disagreed sharply over whether unions were inherently harmful. #expands (0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1004