Neoliberalism emerged from the Great Depression, not from Viennese interwar thought alone

Evidence

Whereas the Mises Privatseminar provided fertile ground for the early attacks against the theoretical foundations of socialism, the critique of classical liberalism as the other face of neoliberalism was not yet apparent in the works of Ludwig von Mises and other Viennese colleagues; neoliberalism, therefore, truly was an offspring of the Great Depression. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 101

Categorization

• DEFINE: Useful precision on what ‘neoliberalism’ properly refers to vs. classical liberalism, for the reader defining the contested term.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 101
• XREF: connects to: The Depression forced postwar conservatives to rebuild capitalism’s foundations, not defend them — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 33; The Great Depression’s financial storms convinced intellectuals that humanity was one indivisible economy — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the…, 294; Neoliberalism emerged across the mid-twentieth century, not as a 1980s rebellion — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 86 (+11 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism emerged across the mid-twentieth century, not as a 1980s rebellion #expands (0.90) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 86
• Neoliberalism’s core concepts formed in the 1930s through networked institutions #corroborates (0.85) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 352
• Neoliberalism is a reprogramming of liberal governmentality, not a reaction to capitalist crisis #contradicts (0.80) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 83
• Neoliberalism centered on a strong state, not the classical night-watchman state #expands (0.75) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2145
• Neoliberalism’s cohesion comes from thought-collective structure, not explicit doctrine #qualifies (0.75) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 916
• Interwar Vienna produced the extra-academic intellectual networks that seeded neoliberalism #qualifies (0.75) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 101
• Early neoliberalism emerged partly from a critique of laissez-faire and naturalist philosophies of history #expands (0.75) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 379