Thread by @docrussjackson

The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective (Eds Mirowski, P & Plehwe, D).

Modern #neoliberalism was born at the "Colloque Walter Lippmann" in 1938, but came into its own with the 1947 founding of the Mont Pèlerin Society.

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The Mont Pèlerin Society's original membership was made up of transnational economists and intellectuals, including Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, George Stigler, Karl Popper, Michael Polanyi, & Luigi Einaudi.

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From this small beginning, their ideas spread throughout the world, fostering, among other things, the political platforms of Margaret Thatcher & Ronald Reagan & the Washington Consensus, & leading to the potentially catastrophic & #neofascist present.

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The Road from Mont Pèlerin presents the key debates & conflicts that occurred among neoliberal scholars & their political & corporate allies regarding trade unions, development economics, antitrust policies, & the influence of 'philanthropy'.

The book captures the complexity of the neoliberal "thought collective" while examining the many ways that neoliberal discourse has come to shape the global economy.

"If you work on post-war history of economics, there is almost no reason not to read this book."-Ross B. Emmett

"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.