On the one hand in the bottom and center there is a group of fifteen out of twenty-eight economists (54 percent), connected in a dense network of German neoliberal think tanks and institutions and thus part of a German neoliberal thought collective. On the other hand, as mentioned earlier, Peter Bofinger, who is tellingly often termed by the media the “last Keynesian,” is connected to the union-linked Böckler Foundation as part of a Keynesian-Alternative thought collective.

Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, loc. 650