Neoliberalism’s origins long predate the 1980s Democratic Party.
Evidence
Against the reality of nearly half a century of modifications in neoliberal doctrine, political economists continue to (re)discover the origins of neoliberalism in the US Democratic Party of the 1980s and reduce it to the idea of a “single blueprint” for deregulation and privatization. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 21
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Neoliberalism’s 1980s breakthrough rested on decades of prior institutional groundwork — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 128; Neoliberalism emerged across the mid-twentieth century, not as a 1980s rebellion — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 86; Neoliberal development thought began decades before its late-1970s influence. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1264 (+8 more)
Broader Connections
- Neoliberalism emerged across the mid-twentieth century, not as a 1980s rebellion
#corroborates(0.95) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 86 - Neoliberal development thought began decades before its late-1970s influence.
#corroborates(0.93) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1264 - Neoliberalism’s core concepts formed in the 1930s through networked institutions
#exemplifies(0.90) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 352 - German neoliberal economists shaped policy from the republic’s founding through the 1980s turn
#exemplifies(0.85) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 654 - A French party explicitly called its program ‘neoliberalism’ in 1945
#exemplifies(0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 286 - 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 - Neoliberalism’s doctrine was shaped from its start by business patrons
#expands(0.82) — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 87 - Neoliberalism replaced modernization as the Clinton-era imperial model
#corroborates(0.80) - French neoliberalism emerged from the double discrediting of classical liberalism and socialist planning.
#expands(0.80) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 274 - Neoliberalism emerged partly as a critique of national sovereignty and democratic budgeting.
#expands(0.78) — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 399