French neoliberals treated consumer cooperatives as compatible with free markets

Evidence

Bouglé would make sure to enumerate the cooperative movement as one of the key examples for the possible coexistence of free markets with more socially controlled elements of the economy. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 386

Categorization

• XREF: Contradicts the common caricature that neoliberalism always opposed cooperative and social-economy institutions. — connects to: Mont Pèlerin members saw depoliticized workplace partnership as compatible with free society. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 959