Seeing the Walter Lippmann Colloquium in context reveals the importance of a more globally oriented conceptual history that is aware of institutional conditions and possibilities. We must locate the origins of neoliberalism within a contested field of thought rather than track a putatively pure essence. Neoliberalism was born in dialogue with other views and should be studied in such a way too.

Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, loc. 405