What kind of values should the new liberal order represent? The formation of neoliberal core concepts still needs to be understood more completely. A set of questions facilitating such understanding might be raised regarding the semantics of neoliberal core concepts in the 1930s and the network of actors and institutions in which these concepts matured. In this chapter I look at the normative content neoliberals associated with a “good society” and explore how far the WLC was part of a larger debate.

Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, loc. 352