Neoliberals reframed Schmitt’s critique as a positive blueprint for world order.

Evidence

Schmitt meant the doubled world as something negative, an impingement on the full exercise of national sovereignty. But neoliberals felt he had offered the best description of the world they wanted to conserve. Wilhelm Röpke, who taught in Geneva for nearly thirty years, believed that exactly this division would be the basis for a liberal world order. The ideal neoliberal order would maintain the balance between the two global spheres through an enforceable world law, creating a “minimum of constitutional order” and a “separation of the state-­ public sphere from the private domain.” — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 51

Categorization

• QUESTION: The right-wing/Nazi intellectual lineage of neoliberal thought is a striking continuity — worth checking how Slobodian handles the moral politics of this appropriation.
• XREF: connects to: Some neoliberals explicitly embraced empire as a model for global economic order. — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the…, 858; Neoliberalism’s double-truth doctrine originated in Hayek’s covert borrowing from Schmitt — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 239; Hayek’s political solution resembled Schmitt’s total state despite his liberal self-image — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 2146

Broader Connections

• Some neoliberals explicitly embraced empire as a model for global economic order. #exemplifies (0.80) — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 858
• Neoliberalism’s double-truth doctrine originated in Hayek’s covert borrowing from Schmitt #expands (0.75) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 239
• Hayek’s political solution resembled Schmitt’s total state despite his liberal self-image #expands (0.75) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2146