Philip Mirowski is a historian and philosopher of economic thought. His work primarily delves into the history and philosophy of science, emphasizing the evolution and critique of economic theories. He examines how economic thinking has been shaped and the societal and scientific influences that have impacted it. His analyses offer a deeper insight into the nature of economic concepts and their historical context.
Neoliberalism was born at the Colloque Walter Lippmann in 1938 and only came into its own with the founding of the Mont Paelerin Society in Vevey, Switzerland in 1947. The book's contributors make heavy use of the original archival materials and make good of the editors' promise to expose the complexity, nuance and pularity of neoliberal thought.
This was the first cross-over book into the history of science written by a historian of economics. It shows how 'history of technology' can be integrated with the history of economic ideas. The analysis combines Cold War history with the history of postwar economics in America and later elsewhere, revealing that the Pax Americana had much to do with abstruse and formal doctrines such as linear programming and game theory. It links the literature on 'cyborg' to economics, an element missing in literature to date. The treatment further calls into question the idea that economics has been immune to postmodern currents, arguing that neoclassical economics has participated in the deconstruction of the integral 'self'. Finally, it argues for an alliance of computational and institutional themes, and challenges the widespread impression that there is nothing else besides American neoclassical economic theory left standing after the demise of Marxism.
The definitive account of why neoliberal solutions were used to solve a neoliberal crisis.