{"id":51417,"date":"2026-02-11T22:08:17","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=51417"},"modified":"2026-02-11T22:08:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:08:56","slug":"matthias-schmelzer-freedom-for-capital-not-people-the-mont-pelerin-society-and-the-origins-of-the-neoliberal-monetary-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=51417","title":{"rendered":"Matthias Schmelzer, \u201eFreedom for Capital, Not People: The Mont P\u00e8lerin Society and the Origins of the Neoliberal Monetary Order\u201c"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Based on new archival sources, <em>Freedom for Capital, Not People <\/em>tells the story of how the Mont P\u00e8lerin Society transformed the world economy. Founded in 1947 by economist Friedrich von Hayek, by the turn of the 1970s the society commanded influence at the highest levels of international monetary policy \u2013 with debates sparked by Hayek, Milton Friedman and Ludwig von Mises emigrating from the seminar room to the halls of power. The group\u2019s collective agenda, the result of years of fierce argument and shrewd political strategising, would dominate the next half century of global capitalism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Reviews<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201eWith Bitcoin and gold at historic highs and dollar hegemony showing cracks, it is more urgent than ever to understand the politics of money. This book shows how neoliberals\u2019 divisions over the question helped create the contemporary world. Which side wins out will shape the future.\u201c \u2013 Quinn Slobodian, author of <em>Globalists<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201eMatthias Schmelzer\u2019s book is vital for understanding why democratic governments are today under attack. His rigorous enquiry into postwar economic debates unearths the neoliberal ideas that went on to unleash capital against democracy.\u201c \u2013 Ann Pettifor, author of <em>The Case for the Green New Deal<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About the author<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Matthias Schmelzer <\/strong>is Professor for Social-Ecological Transformation at the University of Flensburg and director of the Norbert Elias Center for Transformation Design &amp; Research. He author of the award-winning <em>The Hegemony of Growth: The OECD and the Making of the Growth Paradigm <\/em>and co-author of <em>The Future Is Degrowth: A Guide to a World beyond Capitalism.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>208 pages \/ June 2025 \/ Translated by Joshua Rahtz<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-link is-provider-ugradnja wp-block-embed-ugradnja\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.versobooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/3087-freedom-for-capital-not-people\">Freedom for Capital, Not People<\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-knjige","category-novosti"],"acf":{"facebook_opis":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/historiografija.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Capital.webp?fit=348%2C650&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":54541,"url":"https:\/\/historiografija.hr\/?p=54541","url_meta":{"origin":51417,"position":0},"title":"(CAPONEU) Summer School in Critical Theory and Praxis: Literature and Society","author":"Branimir Jankovi\u0107","date":"9. srpnja 2026.","format":false,"excerpt":"Ljetna \u0161kola\u00a0Summer School in Critical Theory and Praxis: Literature and Society odr\u017eava se od\u00a05. do 12. srpnja 2026.\u00a0u\u00a0Pala\u010di Moise u Cresu. 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