An Army of Fighters for Freedom

Innset, Ola

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“…Nine years after the colloquium, in April 1947, Hayek was finally able to gather what he had called, at a lecture at Stanford University some three years earlier, "an army of fighters for freedom" (Innset 2021). His proposed name for the organization was "The Acton-Tocqueville Society" because he believed Lord Acton and Alexis de Tocqueville were the only thinkers to have properly understood Edmund Burke's warnings against the dangers of democracy, and had therefore predicted the phenomenon of totalitarianism.…”

Section: Against Laissez-fairementioning

confidence: 99%

Dual Argument, Double Truth: On the Continued Importance of the State in Neoliberal Thought

Innset

2023

J Hist Econ Thought

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It has been established that the neoliberal creed arising in the interwar and early postwar years, despite its strong rejection of economic planning, also entailed a rejection of laissez-faire liberalism. This article argues that recent attempts at construing early neoliberalism as thus being a more nuanced or moderate creed than later iterations are nonetheless flawed. The “dual argument” of early neoliberalism indicated a new approach to market liberalism in which the state was not seen as the market’s opposite but rather its precondition. This important move is obscured by the language of moderation and nuance. In place of “the radicalization thesis,” the second part of the article considers Philip Mirowski’s concept of a “double-truth doctrine” and argues that an appreciation of the state for social and economic governance is a common feature of different neoliberalisms, which nonetheless differ in their preferred policy suggestions for the use of state power.

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Section: Against Laissez-fairementioning

confidence: 99%