Simons’s anti-power liberalism embarrassed later Chicago economists

Evidence

It will soon become important for our story to realize that Simons’s uncompromising vision of classical liberalism as opposition to power in all its guises later proved an embarrassment to the subsequent neoliberal Chicago School. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 807

Categorization

• XREF: Links to the broader historiography of the Chicago School’s strategic presentation of its own intellectual lineage — connects to reader’s existing work on how intellectual networks construct retrospective continuities. — connects to: Postwar market advocates reread Simons and were shocked by his views — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 107
• SEED: A plausible article angle: how intellectual schools selectively memorialize their precursors, erasing inconvenient figures — Simons as the rejected founding father.