Neoliberal freedom-of-inquiry rhetoric was aimed at promoting their own market views within academia

Evidence

Clearly, Stigler and his fellow neoliberals expressed concern for “freedom of inquiry”—particularly the freedom to promote their views of the marketplace within the academy, which they felt to be implacably opposed to their aims. This raised the question about whether it would be possible to promote their interests within existing academic structures, or whether this called for a more radical response. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 122

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to how liberal ‘free speech’ frames often serve factional interests — resonates with the reader’s work on how institutions deploy neutrality rhetoric. — connects to: A private fund strategized placement of market advocates inside US academia — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 258; Neoliberal authors produce obfuscating scholarship that disguises the movement’s own practices — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 1821; Neoliberalism wants science dissolved into market activity — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 231 (+15 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberals restrict freedom to negative freedom to shield market epistemology from scrutiny #expands (0.85) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 169
• Within neoliberalism, one’s theory of markets determines one’s definition of freedom #expands (0.80) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 167
• Neoliberal university governance subordinates academic freedom to institutional transactions #expands (0.80) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 663
• Neoliberal freedom is recoded as negative liberty to protect market supremacy #corroborates (0.80) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2130
• Neoliberal ‘freedom’ is internally redefined to mean market autonomy, not political liberty #corroborates (0.80) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 166
• Neoliberals conditioned self-government on accepting market discipline #expands (0.75) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 297
• Academic pluralism often masks political constraints rather than expressing intellectual freedom #corroborates (0.75) — Hall, Stuart, Essential Essays, Volume 1, 279
• Neoliberalism rose to hegemony through transnational networks of scholars and allies #expands (0.72) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 81