French economists rejected Keynesianism as illegitimate from a left-wing perspective

Evidence

Neoliberal ideas made headway during the 1950s and the 1960s, even if only among a few economists or civil servants who later declared themselves to be neoliberals. This renewal was facilitated by the lack of a credible alternative in economic policy. Keynesianism was introduced in France only under the Occupation. After 1945, it was defended by some socialists, civil servants, and economists affiliated with Social Catholicism (in particular Henri Guitton and Alain Barrère), but it was not generally considered legitimate from a left-wing perspective. For numerous French economists, the lesson of the General Theory was to consider “the growth harmonized by a deliberate policy” as the main economic phenomenon. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 298

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 298
• XREF: connects to: Left economists’ voluntary adherence to orthodoxy explains the left’s failure post-2008. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 58; Social Catholicism, not Keynesianism, dominated postwar French economic debates — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 298; Keynes’s economics angered market economists by validating populist policy instincts. — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 77