The neoliberal thought collective is a multilevel, multiphase, multisector political capacity-building project
Evidence
I will use the definition of the neoliberal thought collective offered by Mirowski “to refer to this multilevel, multiphase, multisector approach to the building of political capacity to incubate, critique, and promulgate ideas.” Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown (London: Verso, 2013), 44. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 1325
Categorization
- DEFINE: States the working definition of ‘neoliberal thought collective’ that the author adopts throughout — a key definitional anchor for the book.
- XREF: connects to: Neoliberalism’s founders believed ideological change demanded deliberate collective organization — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 218; Neoliberal thought control is organized as nested institutions — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 124; Neoliberal funders treated policy influence as a vertically integrated production pipeline — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 127 (+11 more)
Broader Connections
- Neoliberalism rose to hegemony through transnational networks of scholars and allies
#expands(0.90) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 81 - Neoliberal intellectuals formed a thought collective as a unit
#expands(0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 10 - Neoliberalism self-consciously planned as a multi-generational intellectual project
#expands(0.80) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 116 - Networked mutual influence, not heroic individuals, explains neoliberal thought formation
#corroborates(0.75) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 13