Postcolonial states choosing Soviet-style planning threatened the emerging neoliberal vision.

Evidence

Exacerbating matters for the scholars and practical men in search of neoliberal identities was the emergence of many new nation-states that, in the process of decolonization, were eager to experiment with extensive state planning. Frequently, these states chose to model their industrial system on the Soviet pattern, though without subscribing to bolshevism. Many Western industrialized countries eager to secure allies against the Soviets regarded such (noncommunist) planning efforts with some sympathy. According to many Western experts, the emerging international development financing and aid regime was to provide crucial funding for state-led development planning in the postcolonial world. In the eyes of (MPS) neoliberals, a dangerous liaison between planning-minded leaders in developing and developed countries threatened to undermine the free market system. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1263

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Cold War framing in existing knowledge of 1950s-60s development economics and modernization theory. — connects to: Neoliberals feared postcolonial economic planning would erode property-rights separation — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 279; Neoliberals traced postcolonial authoritarianism to the colonial planning they inherited — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 240; US wartime capitalism was run on Soviet-style central planning (+10 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberals opposed colonial state planning as a politicisation of the economy #corroborates (0.85) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 240
• The NIEO threat spurred the neoliberal counterrevolution in development policy #corroborates (0.80) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1733
• Neoliberals feared colonial anti-imperialism would morph into anti-capitalism #expands (0.78) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 251
• Development debates forced neoliberals to confront state character, trade, and socialism together #expands (0.75) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1273
• Neoliberalism emerged across the mid-twentieth century, not as a 1980s rebellion #expands (0.75) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 86
• Cold War superpower rivalry distorted the development of postcolonial states #qualifies (0.72) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 1203
• Cold War anticommunism and colonial economics stunted early neoliberal development thinking #expands (0.72) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1267
• Neoliberalism’s early adherents faced deep uncertainty about their prospects #expands (0.70) — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, 149
• Neoliberal policies produced experiments whose results fed yet more neoliberal projects #expands (0.70) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1983