Wartime administration forced doctrinaire academic economists to grasp practical economic complexity

Evidence

However doctrinaire academic economists might have been in peacetime, under wartime conditions they demonstrated a clear understanding of the complexity of economic administration and the delicacy of the interface between the work of government administration and the efficiency of the economy as a whole. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 405

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the recurring Mont Pèlerin theme of theory meeting practical statecraft — relevant to how neoliberal ideas absorbed wartime administrative experience. — connects to: Wartime state control proved economies are politically moldable — Gary Mongiovi, Austerity Is an Antidemocratic Strategy…, 29

Broader Connections

• Wartime state control proved economies are politically moldable #expands (0.85) — Gary Mongiovi, Austerity Is an Antidemocratic Strategy…, 29