Neoliberal anti-intellectualism dates back to Hayek’s 1949 attack on intellectuals

Evidence

Furthermore, human science will never fully comprehend nature in real time. Neoliberals have assumed the equivalent stance hostile to intellectuals dating back to Hayek’s attack in 1949, and no one gets more aggrieved about the lack of deference shown by the intelligentsia than your median neoliberal. Bashing pointy-headed elites lends them a certain populist caché; and it plays to an incipient fondness among the uneducated for the fuzzy conviction that wishing can make anything so. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 927

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader argument about the neoliberal thought collective’s stance toward knowledge, and to Hayek’s ‘The Intellectuals and Socialism.’ — connects to: Neoliberals selectively attacked intellectuals they disagreed with while keeping their own expertise. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 2166

Broader Connections

• Neoliberals selectively attacked intellectuals they disagreed with while keeping their own expertise. #qualifies (0.78) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2166