The Walter Lippmann Colloquium, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018 The Birth of Neo-Liberalism

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. 

Part 1

Chapter 1 Introduction (by Reinhoudt & Audier)

Chapter 2 Colloquium Participants (by Reinhoudt and Audier)

Part 2 (translation by Reinhoudt)

Chapter 3 Foreword and opening lectures of the Walter Lippmann Colloquium

Chapter 4 Is the decline of liberalism due to endogenous causes?

Chapter 5 Liberalism and the war economy

Chapter 6 Liberalism and economic nationalism

Chapter 7 Liberalism and the social question

Chapter 8 Psychological and social causes, political and ideological causes of the decline of liberalism

Chapter 9 The agenda of liberalism

Chapter 10 The theoretical and practical problems of the return to liberalism

Part 3

References

Provides the first available English translation of the Lippmann Colloquium, the formal birthplace of “neo-liberalism”

Places the Colloquium in its historical context; avoids a teleological interpretation

Explores themes developed in the Lippmann Colloquium that have an enduring relevance to contemporary economic and political liberalism, particularly in the aftermath of the Great Recession