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Conference of neoliberal intellectuals

The Colloque Walter Lippmann (English: Walter Lippmann Colloquium), was a conference of intellectuals organized in Paris in August 1938 by French philosopher Louis Rougier.^[1] After interest in classical liberalism had declined in the 1920s and 1930s, the aim was to construct a new liberalism as a rejection of collectivism, socialism and laissez-faire liberalism.^[2] At the meeting, the term neoliberalism was coined by Germansociologist and economistAlexander Rüstow, referring to the rejection of the old laissez-faire liberalism.^[2]

Namesake

The colloquium was named after American journalist Walter Lippmann.

Lippman's 1937 book An Enquiry into the Principles of the Good Society had been translated into French as La Cité libre (lit. 'The Free City') and was studied in detail at the meeting.

Importance

Twenty-six intellectuals, including some of the most promin