The structuralist economist Nurkse belonged to the emerging neoliberal network

Evidence

Röpke refers several times to Ragnar Nurkse and discusses his work with great care. Nurkse’s critique of disguised unemployment, of Keynesian employment strategies, of endogenous capital formation, and of forced savings are all positively noted, though Röpke blamed him for mistakenly assuming a general constraint on profitable expansion of original production (Röpke 1953, 98–100). Despite his association with the structuralist paradigm, Ragnar Nurkse was closely tied to the emerging neoliberal group of scholars. He had participated in Mises’s Privatseminar, and the Austrian Institute for Trade Cycle Research financed his 1935 study Internationale Kapitalbewegungen (Feichtinger 2001, 187 and 193, respectively). — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1351

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in how development economics and structuralism overlapped with the neoliberal circle — a boundary-crossing figure. — connects to: Most influential postwar German economists belonged to a dense neoliberal network. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 655; Hayek functioned as the intellectual bridge linking ordoliberalism to the wider neoliberal network — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 616; Neoliberalism rose to hegemony through transnational networks of scholars and allies — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 81 (+2 more)
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how deep was Nurkse’s actual affinity with Mises’s circle given his structuralist work on capital formation?

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism rose to hegemony through transnational networks of scholars and allies #exemplifies (0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 81
• Neoliberal intellectuals formed a thought collective as a unit #exemplifies (0.82) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 10
• Networked mutual influence, not heroic individuals, explains neoliberal thought formation #exemplifies (0.80) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 13