The IEA’s message reached welfare-state professions as early as 1968
Evidence
Hardly a week goes by without some conference of teachers, social workers or medical men being told that, for economic reasons, consumers must be charged directly for welfare services… . bits and pieces of the New Right’s doctrine appear in various places, from the writings of Enoch Powell or the Bow Group to the propaganda of Aims of Industry, but it is most coherently expressed in the publications of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA). The IEA’s output has been considerable. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 421
Categorization
- CANDY: A crisp, quotable 1968 observation that the new right’s welfare-user-pays doctrine was already pervasive.
- XREF: connects to: Heritage’s founder learned IEA’s research-driven advocacy model in London — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1805
Broader Connections
- Heritage’s founder learned IEA’s research-driven advocacy model in London
#expands(0.75) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1805