Institutional affiliations reveal neoliberal commitments better than Nobel prize membership does

Evidence

Although the laureates Thomas Sargent, Douglass North, and Michael Spence have never been MPS members, they have enjoyed extended tenure as Hoover Institution Fellows, which in some ways is far more indicative of their modern political and intellectual commitments. … However, one need only read his extensive works to realize that he subscribes to most of the major tenets of a neoliberal theory of finance. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 509

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader project of mapping real neoliberal networks vs. public caricatures; Hoover/think-tank affiliation as signal echoes the Milgrom law-merchant work on institutions as information substitutes. — connects to: Neoliberals themselves devised ideological scorekeeping of Nobel economics winners — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 510; The economics Nobel is a feigned imitation of the genuine award. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 470; The 1974 Nobel pairing hid a neoliberal project to legitimize the Mont Pèlerin Society — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 525 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• The 1974 Nobel pairing hid a neoliberal project to legitimize the Mont Pèlerin Society #exemplifies (0.82) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 525
• The Nobel prize shaped American economics despite official denials #contradicts (0.78) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 526
• The economics Nobel is a feigned imitation of the genuine award. #expands (0.75) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 470
• Finance scholarship rose from business-school marginality to Nobel-level prominence by the 1990s #contradicts (0.72)