Interwar Vienna produced the extra-academic intellectual networks that seeded neoliberalism

Evidence

Interwar Vienna presaged certain neoliberal ideas and proto-MPS structures. In particular, it fostered the creation of a certain kind of extra-academic cosmopolitan intellectual formation. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 101

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 101
• XREF: connects to: Neoliberalism’s core concepts formed in the 1930s through networked institutions — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 352; Neoliberalism’s leading thinkers were Austrian refugee philosophers of science — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 57; The Austrian School grew out of a tiny liberal electorate that dominated Vienna’s politics — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 107 (+13 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism rose to hegemony through transnational networks of scholars and allies #expands (0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 81
• Neoliberalism’s spread depended on transnational discourse networks rather than national institutions alone #expands (0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2118
• Neoliberal network activity blurred boundaries between national schools of thought #expands (0.80) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 559
• Academic lineage reproduction, not just ideas, carried ordoliberalism into postwar Germany #exemplifies (0.78) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 623