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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.
List of contents
1. Introduction.- 2. Colloquium Participants.- 3. Foreword and Opening Lectures of the Walter Lippmann Colloquium.- 4. Is the Decline of Liberalism Due to Endogenous Causes?.- 5. Liberalism and the War Economy.- 6 Liberalism and Economic Nationalism.- 7. Liberalism and the Social Question.- 8. Psychological and Social Causes, Political and Ideological Causes of the Decline of Liberalism.- 9. The Agenda of Liberalism.- 10. The Theoretical and Practical Problems of the Return to Liberalism.
About the author
Jurgen Reinhoudt is Research Associate in the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, USA
Serge Audier is Maître de Conférences in the Department of Philosophy at University of Paris-Sorbonne, France
Summary
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.
