Thinking the Unthinkable: Think‐tanks and the Economic Counter‐revolution, 1931–1983

Peacock, Alan; Seldon, Arthur

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“…This set of events have been described by many historians(Cockett, 1995;Hartwell, 1995;Plehwe and Walpen, 2005; Mirowski and Plehwe, forthcoming). 24 Elsewhere I have made the historical case that it was Hayek, and not any of the usual suspects, who was most directly responsibe for the founding of the Chicago School of Economics.…”

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“…23This set of events have been described by many historians (Cockett, 1995; Hartwell, 1995; Plehwe and Walpen, 2005; Mirowski and Plehwe, forthcoming).…”

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“…Of course, everyone reads texts through their own spectacles, and some readers will loudly complain I am doing that here. I plead guilty, but what motivates this paper is that I came to this book thinking Caldwell would do something similar, and I was nonplussed that he chose to avoid it.3 One need only consult the literature on the history of the MPS and Neoliberalism to realize Hayek was the pivotal actor in this arena(Cockett, 1995;Hartwell, 1995;Plehwe and Walpen, 2005;Harvey, 2005).…”

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“…3One need only consult the literature on the history of the MPS and Neoliberalism to realize Hayek was the pivotal actor in this arena (Cockett, 1995; Hartwell, 1995; Plehwe and Walpen, 2005; Harvey, 2005). …”

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Naturalizing the market on the road to revisionism: Bruce Caldwell'sHayek's challengeand the challenge of Hayek interpretation

Mirowski

2007

Journal of Institutional Economics

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Bruce Caldwell's Hayek's Challenge should be welcomed as the first serious book on one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. However, this review begins by pointing out a number of curious omissions and silences concerning Hayek's career in the book. We propose that the key to understanding the turns and reversals in his thought lay in his politics, and not as Caldwell has it, in some abstract philosophical doctrines. Central to that thesis is Hayek's fostering the development of Neoliberalism through such institutional structures as the Mont Pèlerin Society.

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Mirowski

2007

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“…Think-tanks have become a global phenomenon (e.g. McGann 2015; Ladi 2005) after having been a constant feature of British politics for a long time (Cockett 1994;Stone 1996;Desai 1994;Blackstone & Plowden 1988;Denham & Garnett 1995). The number of think-tanks and the diversity of the British think-tank world has expanded over the past two decades to just under 300, indicating that think-tanks as organisations must be seen, by their funders at least, as playing a useful role in policy-making and politics.…”

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Managing the crisis? Think-tanks and the British response to Global Financial Crisis and Great Recession

Pautz

2016

Critical Policy Studies

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Ideas matterbut how they do so, and what allows some ideas to become more influential than others is less clear. Certainly, the debate about policy ideas and the many people and organisations producing them continues to occupy researchers. This is also true, more specifically, with regards to the policy responses of British governments to Global Financial Crisis and subsequent Great Recession.The article presents an analysis of the role of one specific type of 'ideas organisation', the thinktank, during the two interrelated crises and their aftermath between 2007 and 2015. The two central objectives of the article are to understand better, first, if and how government-external policy experts from think-tanks contributed to British governments' policy responses to the crises and whether these actors have, second, contributed to the overall discourse about the nature, causes and origins of the crises and therefore to the environment in which governmental policy responses were made. In that way, the article contributes to a better understanding of think-tanks, to the discussion of the origins of Global Financial Crisis and Great Recession and the policy choices made in their context, and to the question why neo-liberalism has been so resilient in the wake of the crisis.

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Progressive Eras, Periods of Reaction, and Constitutional Change

Nicol¹

2014

Ger. law j.

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This article argues that “political herding” plays a crucial role in driving and shaping constitutional change. It links the prevalence of political herding to a psychological phenomenon, “social influence.” It goes on to argue that constitutional change is often driven by the desire for certain substantive policies, which in turn are determined by whether, in a particular epoch, the political community is herding in a progressive or reactionary direction. Contending that the general phenomenon whereby political communities go through recurrent swings to the left or to the right has been neglected by scholars, this essay aims to give this phenomenon the centrality it merits in relation to the evolution of the British constitution. Accordingly it considers the 1906 Liberal government, the 1945 Labour government and the lengthy succession of post-1979 neoliberal governments, analyzing how substantive progressive and reactionary programs led to constitutional change. Finally this article considers the legitimacy both of political herding itself, and of political herding's impact on constitutional change.

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Thinking the Unthinkable: Think‐tanks and the Economic Counter‐revolution, 1931–1983

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Naturalizing the market on the road to revisionism: Bruce Caldwell'sHayek's challengeand the challenge of Hayek interpretation

Naturalizing the market on the road to revisionism: Bruce Caldwell'sHayek's challengeand the challenge of Hayek interpretation

Managing the crisis? Think-tanks and the British response to Global Financial Crisis and Great Recession

Progressive Eras, Periods of Reaction, and Constitutional Change

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