The Road From Mont Pèlerin : The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective, With a New Preface

What exactly is neoliberalism, and where did it come from? This volume attempts to answer these questions by exploring neoliberalism’s origins and growth as a political and economic movement. The Road from Mont Pèlerin 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. Although modern neoliberalism was born at the “Colloque Walter Lippmann” in 1938, it only came into its own with the founding of the Mont Pèlerin 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 Pèlerin 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 Pèlerin 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 What exactly is neoliberalism, and where did it come from? This volume attempts to answer these questions by exploring neoliberalism's origins and growth as a political and economic movement. 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. Introduction / Dieter Plehwe French neoliberalism and its divisions : from the Colloque Walter Lippmann to the Fifth Republic / François Denord Liberalism and neoliberalism in Britain, 1930-1980 / Keith Tribe Neoliberalism in Germany : revisiting the ordoliberal foundations of the social market economy / Ralf Ptak The rise of the Chicago School of Economics and the birth of neoliberalism / Philip Mirowski and Rob van Horn The neoliberals confront the trades unions / Yves Steiner Reinventing monopoly and the role of corporations : Chicago School of Law and Economics / Rob van Horn The origins of neoliberal economic development discourse / Dieter Plehwe Business conservatives and the Mont Pèlerin Society / Kim Phillips-Fein The influence of neoliberals in Chile before, during, and after Pinochet / Karin Fischer Taking aim at the new international economic order / Jennifer Bair How neoliberalism makes a world : the urban property project in Peru / Jim Mitchell Postface : defining neoliberalism / Philip Mirowski. "What exactly is neoliberalism, and where did it come from? This volume attempts to answer these questions by exploring neoliberalism's origins and growth as a political and economic movement. Although modern neoliberalism was born at the "Colloque Walter Lippmann" in 1938, it only came into its own with the founding of the Mont Pèlerin Society, a partisan "thought collective," in Vevey, Switzerland, in 1947. The Road from Mont Pèlerin 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."--Jacket Neoliberalism was born at the Colloque Walter Lippmann in 1938 and only came into its own with the founding of the Mont Pèlerin Society in Vevey, Switzerland in 1947. The book's contributors make heavy use of the original archival materials and make good of the editors' promise to expose the complexity, nuance and polarity of neoliberal thought. Neoliberalism was born at the Colloque Walter Lippmann in 1938 and only came into its own with the founding of the Mont Pèlerin Society in Vevey, Switzerland in 1947. The book's contributors make heavy use of the original archival materials and make good of the editors' promise to expose the complexity, nuance and pularity of neoliberal thought Neoliberalism, aka globalization, rules the world. This book traces its beginnings as a movement from a small group, the Mont Pelerin Society, which met in Switzerland after World War II to its ascendancy in the corridors of power