Stephan Pühringer also follows ideas in action, using empirical methods to evaluate the influence of neoliberalism on policy in Germany—a connection more often asserted than proven. Pühringer tracks the institutional affiliation and public impact of 800 German economists from 1945 to 1995. Comparing neoliberal to Keynesian economists, he finds an extremely uneven power structure in the discipline of economics in favor of the former.

Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, loc. 44