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the road from mont pèlerin the road from mont pèlerin The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective edited by Philip Mirowski Dieter Plehwe harvard university press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England 2009 Copyright © 2009 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The road from Mont Pèlerin : the making of the neoliberal thought collective / edited by Philip Mirowski and Dieter Plehwe. p. cm. Includes index. isbn978-0-674-03318-4 (cloth: alk. paper) 1. Neoliberalism. 2. Neoliberalism—Case studies. I. Mirowski, Philip, 1951– II. Plehwe, Dieter. JC574.R63 2009 320.51—dc22 2008039929 Contents Introduction 1 Dieter Plehwe part one Origins of National Traditions 1 French Neoliberalism and Its Divisions: From the Colloque Walter Lippmann to the Fifth Republic 45 François Denord 2 Liberalism and Neoliberalism in Britain, 1930–1980 68 Keith Tribe 3 Neoliberalism in Germany: Revisiting the Ordoliberal Foundations of the Social Market Economy 98 Ralf Ptak 4 The Rise of the Chicago School of Economics and the Birth of Neoliberalism 139 Rob Van Horn and Philip Mirowski contents vi part two Arguing Out Strategies on Targeted Topics 5 The Neoliberals Confront the Trade Unions 181 Yves Steiner 6 Reinventing Monopoly and the Role of Corporations: The Roots of Chicago Law and Economics 204 Rob Van Horn 7 The Origins of the Neoliberal Economic Development Discourse 238 Dieter Plehwe 8 Business Conservatives and the Mont Pèlerin Society 280 Kim Phillips-Fein part three Mobilization for Action 9 The Influence of Neoliberals in Chile before, during, and after Pinochet 305 Karin Fischer 10 Taking Aim at the New International Economic Order 347 Jennifer Bair 11 How Neoliberalism Makes Its World: The Urban Property Rights Project in Peru 386 Timothy Mitchell Postface: Defining Neoliberalism 417 Philip Mirowski List of Contributors 457 Index 459 the road from mont pèlerin Introduction dieter plehwe N eoliberalism is anything but a succinct, clearly defined political philoso- phy. Both friends and foes have done their share to simplify, if not popularize, neoliberal worldviews. Paradoxically, Margaret Thatcher’s “TINA” (there is no alternative) corresponds with the left-wing critique, which posits that neoliber- alism is best understood as an economic pensée unique(a concept popularized by Pierre Bourdieu). Growing self-confidence on the right coincided with an increasingly frustrated (old) left during the upheavals of the 1980s and 1990s, with both sides eventually converging on a perspective of a neoliberal one- dimensional man. In terms of academic disciplines, the neoliberal continues to be stereotypically imagined as a neoclassical economist (Harvey 2005, 20). This ignores the fact that interdisciplinary Austrian and ordoliberal (German/Swiss) reservoirs of neoliberal thought have been clearly at odds with neoclassical or- thodoxy, as are more recent variations of (rational-choice–based) neo-institu- tionalism. It is curious to note how many pivotal historical contributions to neoliberalism are not recognized by subsequent generations. In Germany, for example, most scholars will raise their eyebrows if ordoliberal inspirations of the social market economy are vilified as neoliberal. But contrary to many who readily identify neoliberalism with Austrian economics, Foucault (2004, 112f.)
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