Shared values let diverse thinkers cooperate across disciplines for hegemonic ends

Evidence

It is also held that members of Fleck’s thought collectives do not communicate well to members of other thought collectives; for example, physicists are suggested to be ill-prepared to talk to theologians, as Steven Lukes reminded me. The members of the neoliberal thought collective examined in this volume instead disagree on specific issues, and they try hard, and certainly not without success, to convince both intellectuals and the general public of the merits of neoliberal reasoning. Their capacity to jointly develop and widely distribute neoliberal knowledge is due to a set of shared values and principled beliefs, which allow community members to effectively communicate across disciplines and audiences in the pursuit of hegemonic strategies. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 170

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes Milgrom’s finding that reputation communities cohere around shared norms rather than uniform belief — and foreshadows how the MPS bridged economists, lawyers, and philosophers. — connects to: Common sense is the shared ground that makes democratic exchange possible; A shared language of gratitude can transcend the science-tradition divide — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom,…, 587
• SEED: Angle: how a ‘thought collective’ unlike Fleck’s portrait — one that tolerates internal disagreement — functions as an intellectual infrastructure for movement-building.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 170