Building on this twofold theoretical and methodological basis, the chapter showed that economists organized in a German neoliberal thought collective had a formative impact on the course of German economic policies. Beginning with the foundation of the Federal Republic in the late 1940s, and later during the “monetarist turn” of the Bundesbank in the 1970s and the “neoliberal turn” in economic politics in the early 1980s, economists connected to the infrastructures of German neoliberalism had key positions which allowed them to influence economic policies.

Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, loc. 654