The early neoliberal network deliberately concealed its political-bias intentions from the public

Evidence

See the letter from Smedley to Anthony Fisher dated June 25, 1956, quoted in Cockett, Thinking the Unthinkable, p. 131: “[I]t is imperative we should give no indication in our literature that we are working to educate the Public along certain lines which might be interpreted as having political bias … it might enable our enemies to question the charitableness of our motives.” — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 1829

Categorization

• XREF: Direct primary-source evidence for the ‘thought collective’ hiding its political orientation beneath charitable-sounding education, a core theme of this reader’s austerity project. — connects to: A transnational intellectual network deliberately reversed the growth of government and rebuilt free-market support. — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 21; Neoliberal ‘spontaneous order’ rhetoric masked deliberately orchestrated institutional networks — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 2114; Neoliberal figures deliberately blurred their boundaries with rival right-wing factions (+5 more)
• SEED: An article angle on deliberate dissimulation as an organizing principle of think tanks from their founding — the concealment of political bias from the public as a founding practice rather than a later corruption.

Broader Connections

• Neoliberal ‘spontaneous order’ rhetoric masked deliberately orchestrated institutional networks #expands (0.92) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2114