Neoliberal networks organized their intellectual labor as military-style artillery divisions
Evidence
Though not necessarily running smoothly, over time the neoliberal networks developed an increasingly fine-grained division of intellectual labor, which the strategists of the Institute of Economic Affairs have sometimes described in military terms. According to Frost (2002), partisan think tanks that organize academic production of publications tailored to specific audiences constitute the long-range artillery; both think tanks and journalists dedicated to marketing neoliberal pamphlets (book reviews, interviews, dinner speeches, etc.) are considered the short-range artillery; whereas neoliberal politicians and other activist types are engaged in hand-to-hand combat. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 87
Categorization
- SEED: The military-artillery metaphor for think-tank division of labor could seed an essay on how intellectual movements self-organize as war machines.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 87
- XREF: connects to: Intra-society factional warfare shaped the launch of rival neoliberal organizations — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 370; Neoliberalism’s core concepts formed in the 1930s through networked institutions — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 352; Neoliberal intellectuals formed a thought collective as a unit — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 10 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- The neoliberal thought collective is a multilevel, multiphase, multisector political capacity-building project
#expands(0.85) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 1325 - Neoliberal intellectuals formed a thought collective as a unit
#exemplifies(0.80) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 10