Geneva school (economics)

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The Geneva school is a school of economic thought based in the Geneva Graduate Institute in Switzerland in the 1930s.

Overview

Historian Quinn Slobodian proposed in 2018 the existence of a so-called Geneva School of economics to describe a group of economists who rallied around the Geneva Graduate Institute in Switzerland in the 1930s as they fled the rise of totalitarianism in Europe. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] The Geneva School describes the intellectual project of Ludwig Von Mises, Wilhelm Röpke, Jacob Viner and Michael A. Heilperin, who formed an intellectual community with employees of the Geneva-based General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and of the League of Nations such as Gottfried Haberler. [6] [7] Slobodian describes them as "ordo-globalists" who promoted the creation of global institutions to safeguard the unimpeded movement of capital across borders. [8] [9] The Geneva School combined the "Austrian emphasis on the limits of knowledge and the global scale with the German ordoliberal emphasis on institutions and the moment of the political decision." [10] [11] [12] [13] Geneva School economists were instrumental in organizing the Mont Pelerin Society, a neoliberal academic society of economists and political philosophers that assembled in nearby Mont Pélerin. [14]

References

  1. ↑ Ebeling, Richard M. (May 2024). "Une oasis de liberté dans une Europe totalitaire" (PDF). Liberal Institut.
  2. ↑ "The Historic Roots of the Neoliberal Program". ResearchGate. Archived from the original on 2022-12-11. Retrieved 2024-12-13.
  3. ↑ "IHEID and Neoliberalism: Reflecting on the Institute's neoliberal history and practice | IHEID". www.graduateinstitute.ch. Retrieved 2023-12-17.
  4. ↑ Mirowski, Philip; Plehwe, Dieter (2009-06-19). The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective. Harvard University Press. ISBN   978-0-674-03318-4.
  5. ↑ Dyson, Kenneth (2021-01-21). Conservative Liberalism, Ordo-liberalism, and the State: Disciplining Democracy and the Market. Oxford University Press. ISBN   978-0-19-259621-5.
  6. ↑ Buliamti (2024-11-19). "OTR—Neoliberalism—A Creative Destruction Disease". Cospolon. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
  7. ↑ "A New Narrative for Neoliberalism". Aspen Institute Central Europe (in Czech). Retrieved 2024-12-14.
  8. ↑ Klabbers, Jan (2020-02-01). "Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism". European Journal of International Law. 31 (1): 369–371. doi:10.1093/ejil/chaa022. ISSN   0938-5428.
  9. ↑ "Neoliberalism's World Order". Dissent Magazine. Retrieved 2024-12-13.
  10. ↑ "A New Narrative for Neoliberalism". Aspen Institute Central Europe (in Czech). Retrieved 2024-12-14.
  11. ↑ Klabbers, Jan (2020-02-01). "Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism". European Journal of International Law. 31 (1): 369–371. doi:10.1093/ejil/chaa022. ISSN   0938-5428.
  12. ↑ "(PDF) The Historic Roots of the Neoliberal Program". web.archive.org. 2022-12-11. Retrieved 2024-12-13.
  13. ↑ "Neoliberalism's World Order". Dissent Magazine. Retrieved 2024-12-13.
  14. ↑ Innset, Ola (2021-11-15). "An Army of Fighters for Freedom. The social environment of the first Mont-Pèlerin Society conference". Revue d'économie politique. 131 (5): 753–776. doi:10.3917/redp.315.0035. ISSN   0373-2630.
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