Freedom for capital, not people : the Mont Pèlerin Society and the origins of the neoliberal monetary order / Matthias Schmelzer ; translated by Joshua Rahtz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schmelzer, Matthias, 1983- Author.

Contributor:

Rahtz, Joshua, translator.

Plehwe, Dieter, writer of foreword.

Standardized Title:

Freiheit für Wechselkurse und Kapital. English http://id.loc.gov/resources/hubs/10b5abed-6396-0169-6b03-df783ba6e6a2

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Mont Pèlerin Society--History.

Mont Pèlerin Society.

Monetary policy--History--20th century.

Monetary policy.

Neoliberalism--Economic aspects--History--20th century.

Neoliberalism.

Monetary policy--History.

Genre:

Translations

Physical Description:

xxii, 185 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Verso, 2025.

Summary:

"Based on new archival sources, Freedom for Capital, Not People tells the story of how the Mont Pèlerin Society transformed the world economy. Founded in 1947 by economist Friedrich von Hayek, by the turn of the 1970s the society commanded influence at the highest levels of international monetary policy - with debates sparked by Hayek, Milton Friedman and Ludwig von Mises emigrating from the seminar room to the halls of power. The group's collective agenda, the result of years of fierce argument and shrewd political strategising, would dominate the next half century of global capitalism"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Preface to the English edition

Foreword to the 2010 German edition / Dieter Plehwe

Contexts of neoliberal monetary policy : the Mont Pèlerin Society and Bretton Woods

The origins of neoliberal monetary theory : internal debates at the Mont Pèlerin Society conferences

Freedom fighters in action : the hegemonisation of flexible exchange rate theory in the 1960s

Conclusion

Appendix: Biographical glossary of important members of the Mont Pèlerin Society.

Notes:

"First published as Freiheit für Wechselkurse und Kapital. Die Ursprünge neoliberaler Währungspolitik und die Mont Pèlerin Society © Metropolis Verlag 2010."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version Schmelzer, Matthias Freiheit für Wechselkurse und Kapital. English Freedom for capital, not people

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781804293744

1804293741

OCLC:

1513081940

Publisher Number:

CIPO000229816