Herbert Giersch pioneered a distinctly neoliberal economic geography largely forgotten in the Anglo-Saxon debate

Evidence

Herbert Giersch’s work marks the reversal of previous approaches of neoliberals to issues of entrepreneurship. While Mises, Kirzner, Schmölders, and many others scrutinized the different constraints faced by entrepreneurs, Giersch turned the tables to emphasize the constraints that entrepreneurs themselves presented to regulators and other enemies of economic freedom at and beyond the scale of the region and nation. The long-time president of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy was at the center of a newfound interest in global competitiveness, innovation, and locational dynamics. Unlike well-known figures such Michael Porter, Jeffrey Sachs, and Paul Krugman, Giersch has been unjustly forgotten in the Anglo-Saxon discussion of new growth economics and new economic geography. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 291

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Provides a concrete counterpoint to the growth/competitiveness discourse treated more generically elsewhere; shows a specifically German-neoliberal genealogy of ideas usually credited to Porter and Krugman.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: what exactly did Giersch’s ‘new economic geography’ claim that differed from Krugman’s mainstream version, and why did the Anglo-Saxon canon erase him?
• XREF: connects to: The distinctively neoliberal development discourse has been neglected by historians — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1336; Recent Anglo-Saxon neoliberal ideas echo earlier German ordoliberal thought — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 153; Giersch fused German location economics with Schumpeterian evolutionary dynamics. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 296

Broader Connections

• Giersch fused German location economics with Schumpeterian evolutionary dynamics. #expands (0.85) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 296
• The distinctively neoliberal development discourse has been neglected by historians #corroborates (0.82) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1336
• Recent Anglo-Saxon neoliberal ideas echo earlier German ordoliberal thought #corroborates (0.78) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 153