Introduction : economists and socialism -- Neoclassical economics and socialism : from the beginnings to 1953 -- A new transnational discussion among economists in the 1950s -- Neoclassical economics and Yugoslav socialism -- Goulash communism and neoclassical economics in Hungary -- The...

The worldwide spread of neoliberalism has transformed economies, polities, and societies everywhere. In conventional accounts, American and Western European economists, such as Milton Friedman and Friedrich von Hayek, sold neoliberalism by popularizing their free-market ideas and radical...