The road from Mont PèlerinPhilip Mirowski, Dieter Plehwe
The road from Mont Pèlerin
by Philip Mirowski, Dieter Plehwe · first published 2009
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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.
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The Wrecking Crew by Thomas Frank is good for the lay public. Much denser is The Road from Mont Pelerin by Philip Mirowski.
on “What to read to understand how economists think” ↗…- Oreskes and Conway, The Big Myth: on how "free markets" were sold as an ideological fable, by the Kochs and others. <https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/big-myth-9781635573572/> - Philip Mirowski, The Road From Mont Pelerin" on the emergence and development of neoliberal philosophy and economics <https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674088344> The Kochs, GMU, Mercatus, the Atlas Network, and many affiliated…
on “Where Did Our Belief in Abundance Come From?” ↗…it. I strongly recommend Philip Mirowski's work on the Mont Pelerin Society. Also Robert Proctor on agnotology, and Naomi Oreskes and Eric Conway's Merchants of Doubt http://www.worldcat.org/title/road-from-mont-pelerin-the-mak... http://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=11232 http://www.worldcat.org/title/merchants-of-doubt-how-a-handf...
on “Ralph J. Cicerone, scientist who worked to protect the ozone layer, has died” ↗…https://www.atlasnetwork.org/partners/global-directory https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_for_Economic_Educ... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_Institute https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercatus_Center See, e.g., Philip Mirowski's The Road From Mont Pelerin: http://www.worldcat.org/title/road-from-mont-pelerin-the-mak...
on “Twitter abandons 'Do Not Track' privacy protection” ↗…what you said yesterday. Their followers have etch-a-sketches for brains. Shake them upside down and they are blank again. edit: I guess I called that guy wrong. Anyhoo, everybody who has read The Road from Mont Pelerin all the way through raise their hands. Only me? The prosecution rests.
on “Wonder Why Your Rent Is High? Because Everyone Decided They Want to Live Alone” ↗