Neoliberal theorists openly argued liberty must be limited to be possessed
Evidence
Similar sentiments were expressed at other comparable conclaves. For instance, John MacCallum Scott proposed to the 1956 meetings of the Liberal International, “Liberty, too, must be limited in order to be possessed”; the British economist Arthur Shenfield pronounced in a speech to the 1954 MPS conference, “It does no service either to liberalism or to democracy to assume that democracy is necessarily liberal or liberalism is necessarily democratic.” Thenceforth, for neoliberals, “freedom” would have to change its connotations. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 119
Categorization
- XREF: Shows the thought collective’s internal rhetoric about freedom ran directly against Mill’s harm-principle liberalism the reader knows from earlier reading. — connects to: Leading neoliberals defended restricting political freedom to preserve economic freedom — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the…, 500; Neoliberals restrict freedom to negative freedom to shield market epistemology from scrutiny — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 169; Neoliberal ‘freedom’ is internally redefined to mean market autonomy, not political liberty — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 166 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Neoliberal ‘freedom’ is internally redefined to mean market autonomy, not political liberty
#corroborates(0.78) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 166 - Neoliberals restrict freedom to negative freedom to shield market epistemology from scrutiny
#corroborates(0.75) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 169 - Neoliberal freedom is recoded as negative liberty to protect market supremacy
#corroborates(0.75) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2130