It is also held that members of Fleck’s thought collectives do not communicate well to members of other thought collectives; for example, physicists are suggested to be ill-prepared to talk to theologians, as Steven Lukes reminded me. The members of the neoliberal thought collective examined in this volume instead disagree on specific issues, and they try hard, and certainly not without success, to convince both intellectuals and the general public of the merits of neoliberal reasoning. Their capacity to jointly develop and widely distribute neoliberal knowledge is due to a set of shared values and principled beliefs, which allow community members to effectively communicate across disciplines and audiences in the pursuit of hegemonic strategies.

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 170