The analysis of the political and public influence of German economists with professorships in economics from 1954 to 1995 reflects a very uneven power structure in favor of neoliberals. Both the detailed analysis of economists with a high media presence or central policy advice positions, and the overall analysis of influential economists in all five coefficients of the PFP, highlight that the majority of economists with an influence on politics and the public can be assigned to the German neoliberal thought collective. While there also exists a network of economists organized in a Keynesian-Alternative thought collective, indicating a potential countervailing power in politico-economic discourses, the network analyses show that this group is in a marginalized minority position.

Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, loc. 652