Neoliberal doctrines crossed borders stripped of context and were adapted into domestic traditions

Evidence

During the 1950s, neoliberal ideas thus spread beyond traditional liberal circles. France discovered (though not for the first time) English and American economics. The doctrines were circulated without their original context and therefore could be dissociated from their national promoters. The Institut de Science Economique Appliquée (ISEA) led by François Perroux promoted the British version of neoliberalism. Some economists supported the idea of a state that was not economically neutral but intervened in accordance “with the internal logic of … the market economy.” German neoliberalism was far less familiar. If it had untiring promoters among businessmen and in the person of Jacques Rueff, it was little studied, but some followers did emerge: neoliberals like François Bilger57 or Social Catholics like André Piettre, who compared German neoliberalism and French planning. Unquestionably, the doctrines of foreign neoliberals circulated, and some economists tried to synthesize them with domestic themes. Such was the case of Raymond Barre. Translator of Hayek and close reader of Walter Eucken and Lionel Robbins, Barre claimed that one of the goals of economics was to define conditions under which intervention in a market economy was viable. He therefore proposed an economic policy combining “planning for competition” (Hayek) and an income-driven policy. For the young economists who studied neoliberalism, this doctrine did not appear incompatible with either the French model of development or the “concerted economy” preached by some planners like François Bloch-Lainé. In his Ph.D. dissertation about neoliberalism, Jacques Cros, who was to become a European civil servant, even established a link between the ideas discussed during the Colloque Lippmann, Keynesianism, and the proposals of the French Social Catholics. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 297

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in how the neoliberalism network crystallized transnationally; echoes the Colloque Lippmann and Hayek-Eucken threads likely developed elsewhere in this book. — connects to: Neoliberalism suppressed its own origins as a new doctrine by the late 1950s — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 2136; Neoliberal ideas penetrated even nominally hostile parties and communist states — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 80; Chilean neoliberalism was adapted contextually, not imported as a ready-made doctrine. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1545 (+1 more)
• SEED: Angle: how economic ideas mutate when they travel without their national carriers — doctrine circulation as translation and reinterpretation rather than export.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 297

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism suppressed its own origins as a new doctrine by the late 1950s #expands (0.75) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2136
• Neoliberal ideas penetrated even nominally hostile parties and communist states #exemplifies (0.70) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 80