Mandate-system administrators directly shaped the postwar neoliberal movement

Evidence

Rappard was deeply involved in both the practical administration of mandate territories and the development of neoliberalism. He was a close friend of Hayek, who wrote to him in the wake of the success of The Road to Serfdom that ‘there are still many more people who feel on the whole as we do than I had ever dared hope’. As the co-founder of the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Rappard provided a wartime institutional home to a group of neoliberal thinkers that included Ludwig von Mises, Wilhelm Röpke and Luigi Einaudi. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 88

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reading purpose on how neoliberalism itself was constituted — personal/institutional genealogy bridges the mandate system and the Mont Pelerin network. — 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; Mandate governance techniques directly influenced neoliberal attempts to discipline sovereignty — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 89; Ousted neoliberal officials retained power through think tanks and civil society — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1616 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Ousted neoliberal officials retained power through think tanks and civil society #complicates (0.78) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1616