"The first comprehensive study of neoliberalism's proselytizers in Eastern Europe and the Global South"--.

"The first comprehensive study of neoliberalism's proselytizers in Eastern Europe and the Global South. Where does free market ideology come from? Recent work on the neoliberal intellectual movement around the Mont Pelerin Society has allowed for closer study of the relationship between ideas, interests, and institutions. Yet even as this literature brought neoliberalism down to earth, it tended to reproduce a perspective that saw the world from Europe and the U.S. outward. With the notable exception of Augusto Pinochet's Chile, long seen as a laboratory of neoliberalism, the new literature followed a story of diffusion as ideas migrated from the center to the periphery. The vast literature on neoliberalism remains dominated by histories of ideas beginning in the Global North and diffusing outward. Even in the most innovative work, the cast of characters remains surprisingly limited, clustering around famous intellectuals like Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek. Market Civilizations redresses this glaring absence by introducing a range of characters and voices active in the transnational neoliberal movement from the Global South and Eastern Europe. This includes B.R. Shenoy, an early Mont Pelerin Society from India, who has been canonized in some circles since the Singh reforms; Manuel Ayau, another MPS president and founder of the Marroquin University, an underappreciated Latin American node in the neoliberal network; Chinese intellectuals who adapted Hayek and Mises to local circumstances; and many others. Seeing neoliberalism from beyond the industrial core helps us understand what made radical capitalism attractive to diverse populations and how their often disruptive policy ideas "went local.""--.

• Cover
• Contents
• Introduction: Beyond the Neoliberal Heartlands
• Part One: Greater Cultures
  • I. Japan and Neoliberal Culturalism
  • II. (Is) India in the History of Neoliberalism?
  • III. Constructing Turkey’s “Magic Political Formula”: The Association for Liberal Thinking’s Neoliberal Intellectual Project
• Part Two: Other Paths
  • IV. The Road from Snake Hill: The Genesis of Russian Neoliberalism
  • V. Shooting for an Economic “Miracle”: German Post-War Neoliberal Thought in China’s Market Reform Debate
  • VI. Disciplining Freedom: Apartheid, Counterinsurgency, and the Political Histories of Neoliberalism
  • VII. Freedom to Burn: Mining Propaganda, Fossil Capital, and the Australian Neoliberals
• Part Three: Radical Outposts
  • VIII. Neoliberalism Out of Place: The Rise of Brazilian Ultraliberalism
  • IX. Latin America's Neoliberal Seminary: Francisco Marroquin University in Guatemala
  • X. The Mediterranean Tiger: How Montenegro Became a Neoliberal Role Model
  • XI. A Hayekian Public Intellectual in Iceland
• Conclusion: Looking Back to the Future of Neoliberalism Studies
• Index