Neoliberalism is both a political philosophy and a term used to signify the late-20th-century political reappearance of 19th-century ideas associated with free-market capitalism. The term has multiple,competing definitions,and is often used pejoratively. In scholarly use,the term is often left undefined or used to describe a multitude of phenomena. However,it is primarily employed to delineate the societal transformation resulting from market-based reforms.
Hans-Hermann Hoppe is a German-American academic associated with Austrian School economics,anarcho-capitalism,right-wing libertarianism,and opposition to democracy. He is professor emeritus of economics at the University of Nevada,Las Vegas (UNLV),senior fellow of the Mises Institute think tank,and the founder and president of the Property and Freedom Society.
The Ludwig von Mises Institute for Austrian Economics,or Mises Institute,is a nonprofit think tank headquartered in Auburn,Alabama,that is a center for Austrian economics,right-wing libertarian thought and the paleolibertarian and anarcho-capitalist movements in the United States. It is named after the economist Ludwig von Mises (1881–1973) and promotes the Misesian version of heterodox Austrian economics.
Lewis &Clark College is a private liberal arts college in Portland,Oregon. Originally chartered in 1867 as the Albany Collegiate Institute in Albany,Oregon,the college was relocated to Portland in 1938 and in 1942 adopted the name Lewis &Clark College after the Lewis and Clark Expedition. It has three campuses:an undergraduate College of Arts and Sciences,a School of Law,and a Graduate School of Education and Counseling.
Philipp Frank was a physicist,mathematician and philosopher of the early-to-mid 20th century. He was a logical positivist,and a member of the Vienna Circle. He was influenced by Mach and was one of the Machists criticised by Lenin in Materialism and Empirio-criticism.
The Mont Pelerin Society (MPS),founded in 1947,is an international academic society of economists,political philosophers,and other intellectuals who share a neoliberal or classical liberal outlook. It is headquartered at Texas Tech University in Lubbock,Texas. The society advocates freedom of expression,free market economic policies,and an open society. Further,the society seeks to discover ways in which the private sector can replace many functions currently provided by government entities.
Wilhelm Röpke was a German economist and social critic,one of the spiritual fathers of the social market economy. A Professor of Economics,first in Jena,then in Graz,Marburg,Istanbul,and finally Geneva,Röpke theorised and collaborated to organise the post-World War II economic re-awakening of the war-wrecked German economy,deploying a program referred to as ordoliberalism,a more conservative variant of German liberalism.
Ordoliberalism is the German variant of economic liberalism that emphasizes the need for government to ensure that the free market produces results close to its theoretical potential but does not advocate for a welfare state and did not advocate against one either.
The Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) is an American conservative,libertarian economic think tank. Founded in 1946 in New York City,FEE is now headquartered in Atlanta,Georgia. It is a member of the State Policy Network.
Paul Beliën is a Flemish Belgian political operative,writer,and former journalist and founder of the right-wing blog The Brussels Journal.
Susan Estrich is an American lawyer,professor,author,political operative,and political commentator. She is known for serving as the campaign manager for Michael Dukakis in 1988 and for serving in 2016 as legal counsel to the former Fox News chairman Roger Ailes.
Philip Mirowski is a historian and philosopher of economic thought at the University of Notre Dame. He received a PhD in Economics from the University of Michigan in 1979.
George C. Peden is an emeritus professor of history at Stirling University,Scotland.
Gottfried Haberler was an Austrian-American economist. He worked in particular on international trade. One of his major contributions was reformulating the Ricardian idea of comparative advantage in a neoclassical framework,abandoning the labor theory of value for an opportunity cost concept.
Contemporary European History is an international peer-reviewed academic history journal founded in 1992 and published quarterly by Cambridge University Press. The journal covers the history of Europe from 1914 onwards and publishes three main types of article:research articles,review articles,and Spotlight essays.
The Colloque Walter Lippmann,was a conference of intellectuals organized in Paris in August 1938 by French philosopher Louis Rougier. After interest in classical liberalism had declined in the 1920s and 1930s,the aim was to construct a new liberalism as a rejection of collectivism,socialism and laissez-faire liberalism. At the meeting,the term neoliberalism was coined by German sociologist and economist Alexander Rüstow,referring to the rejection of the old laissez-faire liberalism.
Floyd Arthur "Baldy" Harper was an American academic,economist and writer who was best known for founding the Institute for Humane Studies in 1961.
Charles Taliaferro is an American philosopher specializing in theology and philosophy of religion.
Günter Schmölders was a German economist at Breslau and Cologne universities.
John A. Davenport was an American journalist and writer,the editor of Barron's,a longtime editor of Fortune and a career-long exponent of the moral and economic case for free markets.
