Neoliberals traced postcolonial authoritarianism to the colonial planning they inherited

Evidence

Much later, neoliberal development economists would look back on this period and argue that, at independence, post-colonial leaders were ‘handed a system of close economic controls which placed the bulk of the population at their mercy’. In the British government’s embrace of economic planning, the neoliberals discerned the origins of postcolonial ‘totalitarianism’. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 240

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s austerity/neoliberalism reading — an inversion of the usual narrative where postcolonial state control is blamed on orthodox economics. — connects to: Neoliberals opposed colonial state planning as a politicisation of the economy — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 240; Early neoliberal development theory echoed colonial assumptions about non-Western peoples — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1290; Postcolonial states choosing Soviet-style planning threatened the emerging neoliberal vision. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1263

Broader Connections

• Postcolonial states choosing Soviet-style planning threatened the emerging neoliberal vision. #expands (0.78) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1263
• Early neoliberal development theory echoed colonial assumptions about non-Western peoples #corroborates (0.72) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1290