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    In most accounts of the history of liberalism, and especially neoliberalism, the Walter Lippmann Colloquium features as a prequel to a story that unfolds strongly after the war. Especially, the Lippmann Colloquium is mentioned as a prequel to the founding of the Mont Pèlerin Society in April , where, again, leading intellectuals - all of them self-proclaimed 'real liberals' - gathered to save the agenda of liberalism. Little is known about the historical origins and context of the LIppmann Colloquium. Why was a Spanish lawyer, José Casillejo, such an outspoken, self-confident speaker at the Colloquium? Why was Louis Rougier the organiser? Why did it take place at Rue Montpensier, No. 2, in Paris? These questions arise because the historical analysis of the Lippmann Colloquium has so far concentrated on retelling the story of those economists and philosophers who became famous and highly influential in the s. The colloquium was, however, part of a huge effort at carving out a transnational scietific landscape in the s. The origins of this scientific landscape go back to the Treaty of Versailles and the emergence of internatioal studies as a scientific discipline. The discussion of what should become of liberalism and how it could be rejuvenated had begun within these institutional networks already in the early s. The neoliberalism that was coined as a term in in Paris thus rests on a larger intellectual and institutional effort carried out in the s.

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    The Walter Lippmann Colloquium

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    Authors:
    1. Jurgen Reinhoudt

      1. Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, USA

    2. Serge Audier

      1. University of Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, France

    • 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

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    This book is an introduction to and translation of the 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. 

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    Table of contents (10 chapters)

    1. Front Matter

      Pages i-viii

    3. Translation of the Walter Lippmann Colloquium

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      Authors and Affiliations

      • Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Stanford, USA

        Jurgen Reinhoudt

      • University of Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, France

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      Walter Lippmann

      American journalist (–)

      For the Jewish and ethnic community leader and advocate of multiculturalism in Australia, see Walter Max Lippmann.

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      DiedDecember 14, () (aged&#;85)
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      Walter Lippmann (September 23, – December 14, ) was an American writer, reporter, and political commentator. With a career spanning 60 years, he is famous for being among the first to introduce the concept of the Cold War, coining the term "stereotype" in the modern psychological meaning, as well as critiquing media and democracy in his newspaper column and several books, most notably his Public Opinion.

      Lippmann also played a notable role as research director of Woodrow Wilson's post-World War I board of inquiry. His views on the role of journalism in a democracy were contrasted with the contemporaneous writings of John Dewey in what has been retrospectively named the Lippmann–Dewey debate. Lippmann won two Pulitzer Prizes, one for his syndicated newspaper column "Today and Tomorrow" and one for his interview of Nikita Khrushchev.

      He has also been highly praised with titles ranging from "most influential" journalist of the 20th century to "Father of Modern Journalism".Michael Schudson writes that James W. Carey considered Walter Lippmann's book Public Opinion as "the founding book of modern journalism" and also "the founding book

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      1The interwar period was a moment of deep crisis everywhere. The already strong shock of World War I, a conflict that involved different continents with political and economic consequences, was soon followed by the crisis and by the growth of totalitarianisms.

      2The United States of America, which had previously abandoned the principle of isolationism to join the war, quickly returned to it, rejecting Wilsonian idealism. The defeat of Wilsonianism granted the Republican party more than ten years of government, from to , interrupted only by the consequences of the crisis and by the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. This crisis, which was mainly socio-economic, had been preceded and was then accompanied by a political crisis, which we may define as a crisis of democracy. The so-called red scare, the growth of right-wing and racist groups like the Ku-Klux-Klan, the controversy between evolutionism and creationism and the admiration for Mussolini and Italian fascism - all typical tracts of the Twenties - were clear signals of those difficulties. The growing power of the Nazis as well as the threat of Fascisms and Communism in the Thirties, ideologies that seemed attractive to many Americans, illustrates how deep this crisis was getting.  

      3Walter Lippmann was one of the brightest and most influential of the many intellectuals who debated these topics, to the extent that his works can now be considered as “classics”. Mostly known as a famous columnist, Lippmann was born in and died in Despite his important contributions to The New Republic, New York World, New York Herald Tribune, Washington Post, and several other magazines, Lippmann was not just a journalist, he was also an acute political thinker - or a public philosopher, as he would have probably defined himself - and an expert in international relations. At Harvard University, where he graduated in philosophy in , he was deeply influenced by two of the most acclaimed professors of the

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