The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective, With a New Preface - Softcover

The Road from Mont P lerin reminds us that social movements succeed by drawing in many others who undertake the work that actually drives the movement forward. The book is full of stories of those individuals and related organizations that formed strategies, carried out the logistics and legwork, and brought legislators and others into contact with [Mont P lerin Society] ideas. In other words, if you work on post-war history of economics, there is almost no reason not to read this book.-- (03/01/2011) The volume's contributors make heavy use of original archival materials and make good on the editors' promise to expose the complexity, nuance and plurality of neoliberal thought--a belief system that has constructed and re-constructed itself and the world...The Road from Mont P lerin is indispensable for anyone wishing to gain an understanding of neoliberalism, whether as an end in itself or as a means for constructing alternative, non-neoliberal futures.-- (07/01/2010)

What exactly is neoliberalism, and where did it come from? This volume attempts to answer these questions by exploring neoliberalism's origins and growth as a political and economic movement. Now with a new preface.