Sarah Woods
Playwright and campaigner, is part of the New Weather Institute.
Playwright and campaigner, is part of the New Weather Institute.
By Andrew Simms, Sarah Woods, Red Pepper
In April 1947, Mont-Pèlerin was home to an ideological resurrection and, as with The Returned, what came back was critically different to the previous incarnation. The architects of neoliberalism favoured a faith in free markets to best meet peoples’ needs, drawing on the tradition of Adam Smith, but taken to a new, extreme level. They coupled this to an equally extreme libertarian individualism.