James Buchanan thought the public needed tutoring to accept the neoliberal position.
Evidence
The position of James Buchanan (Ideas, Persons and Events, pp. 210–20) was only a slightly different variant, suggesting that the populace had to be tutored in the “elementary principles of [economic] science” to embrace the neoliberal position. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 1899
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the book’s broader account of the MPS as a self-conscious propaganda effort to shape public opinion.