Nine Lives of Neoliberalism places ideas in context and follows them in action. Sites of analysis include the League of Nations' intellectual wing, the Bellagio Group of academics and central bankers, and the California tax and welfare reform movement. Against charges that critical scholars cast neoliberalism as a monolith, Nine Lives of Neoliberalism also emphasizes the diversity and heterogeneity of the neoliberal thought style. Attention is drawn to the deep influence of the philosophy of science on early neoliberalism, the contested nature of behavioral economics in neoliberalism, the divergent stances on the idea of intellectual property rights, and the bitter conflicts within the Mont Pélerin Society (MPS) over what might underpin a global monetary order.

Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, loc. 20