The Road from Mont Pelerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective, With a New Preface
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The Road from Mont Pelerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective, With a New Preface
The Road from Mont Pelerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective, With a New Preface

The Road from Mont Pelerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective, With a New Preface

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Philip Mirowski (Contributor) Dieter Plehwe (Contributor)  

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Although modern neoliberalism was born at the "Colloque Walter Lippmann" in 1938, it only came into its own with the founding of the Mont Pelerin Society, a partisan "thought collective," in Vevey, Switzerland, in 1947. Its original membership was made up of transnational economists and intellectuals, including Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, George Stigler, Karl Popper, Michael Polanyi, and Luigi Einaudi. From this small beginning, their ideas spread throughout the world, fostering, among other things, the political platforms of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan and the Washington Consensus. The Road from Mont Pelerin presents the key debates and conflicts that occurred among neoliberal scholars and their political and corporate allies regarding trade unions, development economics, antitrust policies, and the influence of philanthropy. The book captures the depth and complexity of the neoliberal "thought collective" while examining the numerous ways that neoliberal discourse has come to shape the global economy. "The Road from Mont Pelerin is indispensable for anyone wishing to gain an understanding of neoliberalism, whether as an end in itself or as a means for constructing alternative, non-neoliberal futures." -Daniel Kinderman, Critical Policy Studies "If you work on post-war history of economics, there is almost no reason not to read this book." -Ross B. Emmett, Journal of the History of Economic Thought CPSIA choking or other US hazard warning - No California Proposition 65 hazard warning necessary
Philip Mirowski is Carl Koch Professor of Economics and the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Notre Dame. Dieter Plehwe is a Senior Fellow at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin.
  • Contributor: Philip Mirowski
  • Imprint: Harvard University Press
  • ISBN13: 9780674088344
  • Number of Pages: 496
  • Packaged Dimensions: 156x235mm
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • Release Date: 2015-11-16
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Philip Mirowski is Carl Koch Professor of Economics and the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Notre Dame. Dieter Plehwe is a Senior Fellow at the Social Science Research Centre Berlin.

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