## Metadata - Author: [[Raoul Martinez]] - Full Title: Creating Freedom - Category: #books ## Highlights - Great wealth is never deserved. The fact that some people attain it is merely the product of strange institutions, emerging from an odd culture, developed by a flawed species. - Those most empowered by the market have never stopped working to free it from democratic control. Since the 1960s, the ideological vehicle for this task has taken the form of ‘neoliberalism’. The term was selected by participants at a French conference in 1928 to discuss the implications of a book called The Good Society by Walter Lippmann. Among conference delegates were the economists Friedrich Hayek and Ludvig von Mises, both of whom would become powerful advocates of neoliberal ideology. At the heart of neoliberal thinking is the belief that the only way to guarantee individual freedom is to protect ‘market freedom’.