Description: The volume shows that neoliberalism concerns a tradition carried by a network of people, who understood themselves as liberals (and at times as neoliberals) and who sought to create societies based on individual freedom and a free market economy. It also shows that neoliberalism emerged as a transnational and multilingual phenomenon and that it cannot be reduced to one doctrine or practice. The book will enrich the reader's knowledge of the political-ideological landscapes and developments in various European regions and countries, in addition to transforming the overall picture of European (neo)liberalisms in the twentieth century.
Brief description: Hagen Schulz-Forberg is Associate Professor for Global and European History at Aarhus University, where he also co-ordinates the International Studies programme and directs the research project Towards Good Society: Conceptualising the Social through the Economic since the 1930s. His latest monograph, co-authored with Bo Strath, The Political History of European Integration: The Hypocrisy of Democracy-through-Market, was shortlisted for the European Book Prize 2011. He recently edited Zero Hours: Conceptual Insecurities and New Beginning in the Interwar Period (2013) and A Global Conceptual History of Asia, 1860-1940 (2014).Niklas Olsen is Assistant Professor at Copenhagen University. He received his PhD from the European University Institute in Florence. He is currently working on a project on the variants of liberalism in Western Europe from 1945 to 1990. His recent publications include History in the Plural: An Introduction to the Work of Reinhart Koselleck (2012).