German ordoliberal think tanks deliberately copied American advocacy models

Evidence

The Kronberger Kreis was organized on the model of a modern American think tank with the objective of influencing public opinion and politico-economic discourse through “organized events, publications, individual policy advice, concrete actions as well as formulated legislative texts.” … After the publication of the Lambsdorff Paper and the end of the social-liberal coalition—later labeled the “ordopolitical awakening of Germany” by executive board member of the Stiftung Marktwirtschaft, Michael Eilfort—the Stiftung Marktwirtschaft and the Kronberger Kreis successfully influenced the public debate with position papers and short statements. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 639

Categorization

• XREF: Fractures the crude caricature that American neoliberalism is the model and Europe passively imitated — here the relationship runs the other way, German economists importing American think-tank methods. Connects to Mirowski’s broader ‘neoliberal thought collective’ thesis. — connects to: Neoliberal think tanks were standardized through explicit managerial blueprinting — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 580

Broader Connections

• Neoliberal think tanks were standardized through explicit managerial blueprinting #expands (0.75) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 580