The Chicago Antitrust Project was the first applied neoliberal project
Evidence
In 1953, shortly after the birth of neoliberalism at Chicago and shortly before Levi’s volte-face, the Chicago-based Antitrust Project commenced. This project deserves to be remembered as the first self-consciously applied neoliberal project at Chicago. In 1957, after Levi’s transformation, Levi joined the MPS. Since he had begun to participate in the revision of an important aspect of legal and social theory, it became a foregone conclusion that he would be ushered into the transformative intellectual experience at the heart of the “thought collective.” — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1121
Categorization
- SEED: The Antitrust Project as the overlooked first applied neoliberal project is a good essay angle — most histories skip the legal-economic institutional vehicle in favor of ideas.
- XREF: connects to: Mont Pelerin Society premises on monopoly underpinned the Chicago Antitrust Project — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1133; Early neoliberals framed market competition as dependent on prior moral virtues. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 70
Broader Connections
- Mont Pelerin Society premises on monopoly underpinned the Chicago Antitrust Project
#corroborates(0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1133 - Early neoliberals framed market competition as dependent on prior moral virtues.
#qualifies(0.75) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 70