Using the State

Ola Innset ()
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Ola Innset: National Library of Norway

Chapter Chapter 6 in Reinventing Liberalism, 2020, pp 113-129 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Innset brings our attention to Hayek’s introductory remarks and the first session of the first Mont Pelerin Society conference. At stake was nothing less than the neoliberal aim of moving beyond laissez-faireLaissez-faire , related to the second aspect of the dual argumentDual argument, the . Hayek’s critique of laissez-faire was scathing, and he made it clear that liberalism would have to be reinvented in orderOrder for a modern society based on market mechanisms to be possible. Walter Eucken[aut]Eucken, Walter and Aaron Director[aut]Director, Aaron held introductions in which they agreed with Hayek’s[aut]Hayek, Friedrich main point, but the following discussion concerning the details of state action in the name of market mechanisms derailed, primarily due to the laissez-faireist interventions of Ludwig von Mises[aut]Mises, Ludwig von .

Keywords: Neoliberalism; Laissez-faire; State action; Reinvention; Hayek (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-38885-0_6

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