Evidence for titling’s virtuous ownership cycle collapses under scrutiny of closed think-tank circuits.

Evidence

Upon closer inspection, much of the evidence in support of the neoliberal scheme leading to a virtuous cycle of ownership and entrepreneurship collapses. Academic research reveals the closed neoliberal circuits, including the branding of program and evaluation by neoliberal think tanks providing textbook material to teachers. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 164

Categorization

  • QUESTION: The ‘closed neoliberal circuits’ — think tanks both running and evaluating their own programs — is a falsifiable mechanism worth investigating further.
  • corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 164
  • XREF: connects to: Economists’ claim to transcendent knowledge collapses when they enter governance — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 1597; Institutionalized discursive practices can lose credibility and collapse — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 53; Field’s titling study results may reflect political context rather than property effects — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1929

Broader Connections