Plehwe / Slobodian / Mirowski Nine Lives of Neoliberalism

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Neoliberalism is dead. Again. After the election of Trump and the victory of Brexit in 2016, many diagnosed the demise of the ideology of Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Augusto Pinochet, and the WTO. Yet the philosophy of the free market and the strong state has an uncanny capacity to survive and even thrive in crisis. Understanding neoliberalism's longevity and its latest permutation requires a more detailed understanding of its origins and its varieties. This volume breaks with the caricature of neoliberalism as a simple belief in market fundamentalism and homo economicus to show how neoliberal thinkers perceived institutions from the family to the university, disagreed over issues from intellectual property rights and human behavior to social complexity and monetary order, and sought to win consent for their project through the creation of new honors, disciples, and networks. Far from a monolith, neoliberal thought is fractured and, occasionally, even at war with itself. We can begin by making sense of neoliberalism's nine lives by sorting out its own tangled histories.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Plehwe, Dieter

Slobodian, Quinn

Mirowski, Philip

Über Autor(innen)

Mirowski, Philip
Philip Mirowski is a historian and philosopher of economic thought at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. His many previous books include Machine Dreams and More Heat than Light, and he appeared in Adam Curtis's BBC documentary The Trap.

Quinn Slobodian is the author of
Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism. He teaches history at Wellesley College.


Dieter Plehwe is a Research Fellow in the Center for Civil Society Research unit of the WZB Social Science Center Berlin. He is the author and editor of several books on neoliberalism including
Neoliberal Hegemony: A Global Critiqueand
The Road From Mont P?lerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective.


Philip Mirowski is a historian and philosopher of economic thought at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. His many previous books include
Machine Dreams and
More Heat than Light, and he appeared in Adam Curtis's BBC documentary
The Trap.