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Neoliberalism is fast becoming the dominant ideology of our age,
yet politicians, businessmen and academics rarely identify
themselves with it and even political forces critical of it
continue to carry out neoliberal policies around the globe. How can
we make sense of this paradox? Who actually are "the neoliberals"?
This is the first explanation of neoliberal hegemony, which
systematically considers and analyzes the networks and
organizations of around 1.000 self conscious neoliberal
intellectuals organized in the Mont Pelerin Society.
This book challenges simplistic understandings of neoliberalism. It
underlines the variety of neoliberal schools of thought, the
various approaches of its proponents in the fight for hegemony in
research and policy development, political and communication
efforts, and the well funded, well coordinated, and highly
effective new types of knowledge organizations generated by the
neoliberal movement: partisan think tanks.
It also closes an important gap in the growing literature on
"private authority', presenting new perspectives on transnational
civil society formation processes.
This fascinating new book will be of great interest to students of
international relations, political economy, globalization and
politics.
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
Neoliberalism is fast becoming the dominant ideology of our age,
yet politicians, businessmen and academics rarely identify
themselves with it and even political forces critical of it
continue to carry out neoliberal policies around the globe. How can
we make sense of this paradox? Who actually are "the neoliberals"?
This is the first explanation of neoliberal hegemony, which
systematically considers and analyzes the networks and
organizations of around 1.000 self conscious neoliberal
intellectuals organized in the Mont Pelerin Society. This book
challenges simplistic understandings of neoliberalism. It
underlines the variety of neoliberal schools of thought, the
various approaches of its proponents in the fight for hegemony in
research and policy development, political and communication
efforts, and the well funded, well coordinated, and highly
effective new types of knowledge organizations generated by the
neoliberal movement: partisan think tanks. It also closes an
important gap in the growing literature on "private authority'',
presenting new perspectives on transnational civil society
formation processes. This fascinating new book will be of great
interest to students of international relations, political economy,
globalization and politics.
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