The Walter Lippmann Colloquium: The Birth of Neo-Liberalism

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This book is an introduction to and translation of the 1938 Walter Lippmann Colloquium held in Paris, which became known as the intellectual birthplace of “neo-liberalism.” Although the Lippmann Colloquium has been the subject of significant recent interest, this book makes this crucial primary source available to a wide, English-speaking audience for the first time. The Colloquium features important—often passionate—debates involving well-known intellectual figures such as Walter Lippmann, Louis Rougier, Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, Michael Polanyi, Jacques Rueff, Alexander Rüstow and Wilhelm Röpke. Many of the topics addressed at the Colloquium, such as the proper methods of economic intervention, the relationship between the market economy and democracy, and the relationship between economic liberalism and political liberalism are issues that still vie for our attention in the aftermath of the Great Recession. Front Matter ....Pages i-viii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Introduction (Jurgen Reinhoudt, Serge Audier)....Pages 3-52 Colloquium Participants (Jurgen Reinhoudt, Serge Audier)....Pages 53-89 Front Matter ....Pages 91-91 Foreword and Opening Lectures of the Walter Lippmann Colloquium (Jurgen Reinhoudt, Serge Audier)....Pages 93-117 Is the Decline of Liberalism Due to Endogenous Causes? (Jurgen Reinhoudt, Serge Audier)....Pages 119-128 Liberalism and the War Economy (Jurgen Reinhoudt, Serge Audier)....Pages 129-137 Liberalism and Economic Nationalism (Jurgen Reinhoudt, Serge Audier)....Pages 139-147 Liberalism and the Social Question (Jurgen Reinhoudt, Serge Audier)....Pages 149-156 Psychological and Sociological Causes, Political and Ideological Causes, of the Decline of Liberalism (Jurgen Reinhoudt, Serge Audier)....Pages 157-176 The Agenda of Liberalism (Jurgen Reinhoudt, Serge Audier)....Pages 177-184 The Theoretical and Practical Problems of a Return to Liberalism (Jurgen Reinhoudt, Serge Audier)....Pages 185-188 Back Matter ....Pages 189-212