The neoliberal development agenda’s ideas predate its political victories

Evidence

The policies advocated by all three governments on key issues such as international trade and foreign aid were consistent with the market-led, export-oriented development model celebrated in President Reagan’s 1981 speech at Cancún. Within a decade, Reagan’s vision would be the new orthodoxy, widely diffused across the (after 1989, rather anachronistically named) Third World. Yet as various contributions to this book document, the ideas on which the new international development agenda was based predate neoliberalism’s political triumph. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1751

Categorization

• XREF: Reinforces the book’s central historiographical thesis about the intellectual network preceding the political ascendancy of Thatcher/Reagan/Kohl. — connects to: Neoliberal development thought predated and coexisted with left-wing theories rather than countering them — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1266; Neoliberal development economics emerged parallel to, not after, mainstream development theory — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1269; Fieldwork-based development economists shaped MPS ranks and conservative policy — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1362

Broader Connections

• Neoliberal development thought predated and coexisted with left-wing theories rather than countering them #corroborates (0.95) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1266
• Neoliberal development economics emerged parallel to, not after, mainstream development theory #corroborates (0.92) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1269