Neoliberalism’s core concepts formed in the 1930s through networked institutions

Evidence

What kind of values should the new liberal order represent? The formation of neoliberal core concepts still needs to be understood more completely. A set of questions facilitating such understanding might be raised regarding the semantics of neoliberal core concepts in the 1930s and the network of actors and institutions in which these concepts matured. In this chapter I look at the normative content neoliberals associated with a “good society” and explore how far the WLC was part of a larger debate. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 352

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader literature on the architecture of global governance - the League of Nations’ intellectual networks foreshadowing what Slobodian elsewhere calls ‘globalists’. — connects to: Neoliberalism’s Freiburg-school origins were anticartel and then mutated in Chile — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 764; Conservative ideas formed through cross-national networks and institutional contexts, not isolated biography. — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 27; The 1930s LSE hosted a cosmopolitan international network of visiting economists — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 71 (+20 more)

Broader Connections

• Networked mutual influence, not heroic individuals, explains neoliberal thought formation #corroborates (0.92) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 13
• Early neoliberalism’s core ideas emerged inside League of Nations institutions. #contradicts (0.90) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 366
• Neoliberalism rose to hegemony through transnational networks of scholars and allies #expands (0.88) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 81
• Early neoliberalism grew out of League of Nations institutional networks #exemplifies (0.85) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 403
• Interwar Vienna produced the extra-academic intellectual networks that seeded neoliberalism #exemplifies (0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 101
• Neoliberal network activity blurred boundaries between national schools of thought #expands (0.82) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 559
• Neoliberal networks organized their intellectual labor as military-style artillery divisions #expands (0.78) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 87
• Mandate-system administrators directly shaped the postwar neoliberal movement #expands (0.75) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 88