Neoliberals themselves devised ideological scorekeeping of Nobel economics winners
Evidence
The neoliberal thought collective has been so fascinated by the ersatz Nobel and its implications that they themselves have devoted substantial resources to taking the ideological temperature of each and every prize winner. In effect, neoliberals strive to have summary box scores, in order to gauge whether or not, from their vantage point, they are winning, and by how much. … As in so many other cases of the political sociology of science, one finds that it was the NTC that managed to get there first. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 510
Categorization
- SEED: Angle: how a movement’s self-understanding as winning/losing (box scores of prize winners) reveals an internal competitive-sports mentality that the caricature tradition misses.
- XREF: connects to: Nobel economics prizes to neoliberals resulted from contingency plus deliberate agenda — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 499; The economics prize consciously moved the profession in a neoliberal direction — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 484; Institutional affiliations reveal neoliberal commitments better than Nobel prize membership does — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 509 (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- The ersatz Nobel Prize steered economics toward one ideological species while denying that intent
#corroborates(0.85) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 478 - The economics prize consciously moved the profession in a neoliberal direction
#expands(0.78) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 484 - Institutional affiliations reveal neoliberal commitments better than Nobel prize membership does
#qualifies(0.72) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 509 - Neoliberalism claimed openness to all viewpoints while privately enforcing ideological conformity
#responds-to(0.70) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 200