Private institutions, entrepreneurs, social directors, economists, journalists and other professionals involved in the world production and dissemination fo the (neo) liberal ideas

Abstract

This article analyses how the neo-liberal ideas are produced and disseminated worldwide and how this production communicates its meaning for the orientation of the present processes. The research itself elected 3 institutions as case models: Mont Pelerin Society, The Institute of Economic Affairs and the Atlas Economic Research Foundation and the international nets of “think tanks”, business schools, political leaders, economists, journalists and other social actors. The ideas transmitted by such institutions go from the classic position of admitting the state presence only in social matters to the one that says that it is preferable to keep the state away, mainly if it concerns the environmental sphere.