The term neoliberalism was coined at the 1938 colloquium on a cartelist’s suggestion
Evidence
On the suggestion of the French industrialist Louis Marlio, a major player in the creation of an aluminum cartel in the 1920s, the label on which the gathered thinkers settled for their shared ideology was “neoliberalism.” — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 267
Categorization
- DEFINE: Locates the origin of the label ‘neoliberalism’ in a specific event and person.
- CANDY: Neat origin-story fact: the word ‘neoliberalism’ came from a French aluminum-cartel industrialist.
- XREF: connects to: The term ‘neoliberalism’ was coined at the 1938 Colloque Walter Lippmann — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 775; The term neoliberalism first appeared in 1898 as a pejorative for neoclassical economics. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 2092; Neoliberalism was coined by proponents in 1938 but now functions as an oppositional insult — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 115
Broader Connections
- The term ‘neoliberalism’ was coined at the 1938 Colloque Walter Lippmann
#corroborates(1.00) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 775 - The term neoliberalism first appeared in 1898 as a pejorative for neoclassical economics.
#contradicts(0.90) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2092