Austerity transforms neoliberal rationality from freedom toward sacrifice.

Evidence

4. The austerity politics ensuing from these crises and the transformation of neoliberal rationality that such politics entail, from limitless to constrained, from freedom to sacrifice. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 135

Categorization

• SEED: ‘From freedom to sacrifice’ is a powerful frame for an essay on how austerity rebrands constraint as virtue — resonating with the reading purpose on austerity.
• XREF: connects to: Broader neoliberal shifts enabled austerity’s return to economic common sense — Mark Blyth, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous…, 406; Austerity is economically irrational yet politically rational for preserving capitalism; Monetary austerity was designed to moralize and discipline economic behavior toward thrift — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 759 (+16 more)

Broader Connections

• Austerity calls for sacrifice to the economy as an unreturned offering. #expands (0.92) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 426