Graduate Student, POLIS
ESRC PhD Student
King´s College
Thesis Title: The House that Hayek Built: The Intellectual Origins of Neoliberal Capitalism
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Andrew Gamble
Ha Joon Chang |
About
PhD Candidate, Cambridge University, Visiting Researcher Diego Portales University, Faculty member Adolfo Ibáñez University (teaching course on Chilean politics and history).
Doctorando de la Universidad de Cambridge, Investigador Visitante del Centro de Humanidades, Universidad Diego Portales y Profesor de la Escuela de Gobierno de la Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (curso "Realidades Chilenas: Historia, Teoría y Política").
My PhD thesis is based on an analysis of the competing philosophical schools within neoliberalism. It is my contention that there is a clear divide between the libertarian and authoritarian variants of neoliberal ideology (centring on the work of Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek respectively). I go on to argue that libertarian neoliberalism is a political irrelevance, developing the notion of Hayekianism as the key activist ideology that was able to take control of key government centres during the Cold War and was central to shaping the globalised order we live in today. In order to defend this contention I apply the theoretical analysis of neoliberal ideology to the governments of General Pinochet and Mrs Thatcher. I seek to demonstrate that these administrations were both dominated by a hard core of "Hayekians" who were able to project there ideas well beyond the period of their direct rule.
Mi tesis doctoral se basa en un análisis de las diferentes escuelas filosóficas dentro del neoliberalismo. Sostengo que existe una división fundamental entre las versiones libertarias y autoritarias de esta ideología (que se giran en torno de la obra de Milton Friedman y Friedrich Hayek respectivamente). Propongo el argumento de que el neoliberalismo libertario es irrelevante políticamente, mientras que la versión autoritaria que caracterizo como "hayekianismo" es la ideología activista clave que se apoderó de los centros del poder durante la Guerra Fría y formó el mundo globalizado actual. Para defender tal hipótesis aplico mi análisis teórico del neoliberalismo a los gobiernos de General Pinochet y Margaret Thatcher. Procuro demostrar de que sus gobiernos fueron dominados por un núcleo duro de "hayekianos" que lograron proyectarse mucho más allá de la duración de su poderío directo.
