The Formation of Neoliberal Intellectual Critique in the Early 20th Century

Seminar Readings:

Stedman Jones, Daniel, Masters of the Universe: Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2012), Chapter 1: The Postwar Settlement, pp. 21-29; Chapter 2: 29-73. 1-84.

 

 Further Reading:

Aubrey, Thomas, All Roads Lead to Serfdom: Confronting Liberalism’s Fatal Flaw (Bristol, 2022).

Biebricher , Thomas, Nedergaard, Peter, Bonefeld, Werner (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Ordoliberalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022). (online)

Boettke, Peter J., Candela, Rosolino A., The Austrian School of Economics: A view from London, Review of Austrian Economics, Vol. 33, 1-2 (2020): 68-85.

Boettke, P. J., F. A. Hayek: Economics, Political Economy and Social philosophy (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).

Colin-Jaeger, Nathanaël, ‘Reconstructing Liberalism: Hayek, Lippmann and the Making of Neoliberalism’, Oeconomia;, vol, 11 (2021).

Phlehwe, Dieter, Introduction in Philipp Mirowski and Dieter Plehwe (eds,), The Road from Mont Pelerin: the Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective (Cambridge, Mass, 2009), pp. 1-26, pp. 34-42.

Reinhoudt, Jurgen/Audier, Serge (eds), The Walter Lippmann Colloquium: The Birth of Ne-Liberalism (Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018), pp. 6-22.

Tribe, Keith, ‘Liberalism and Neoliberalism in Britain, 1930-1980’, in Mirowski, Philip and Dieter Plehwe (eds,), The Road from Mont Pelerin: the Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective (Cambridge, Mass, 2009), pp. 68-97.

Slobodian, Quinn, Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism (Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press, 2018), Chapter I: The World of Walls, pp. 1-28.

Wilson, Julie, A New Hegemony: The Rise of Neoliberalism (…), pp. 21-28.

Seminar Questions/Possible Essay Questions:

What were the aims of neoliberalists?

How does the historical context help us to understand the neoliberal agenda of the time?