Crises have not discredited neoliberal governance

Evidence

However, neither the steady deterioration of labor conditions nor the increasingly alarming damages caused to the environment has acted as the anticipated wake up call. To the contrary, the aftermath of the Great Recession has demonstrated the remarkable resilience of a mode of government, disseminated across public and private institutions, that gives precedence to the gambles on tomorrow’s presumptive profits over the mending of today’s social woes and the prevention of after-tomorrow’s ecological disaster. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 749

Categorization

• XREF: The claim that even the Great Recession failed to discredit this mode of government resonates with work on ‘zombie neoliberalism’ and the failure of the left’s crisis-expectation narrative. — connects to: Crises recurring across eras implies neoliberalism may not cause them — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 1787; Neoliberalism has a coherent crisis logic despite lacking fixed doctrine — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 146; Neoliberals reject market-failure theory, so they cannot see crisis as market glitch — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 154 (+9 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism is a reprogramming of liberal governmentality, not a reaction to capitalist crisis #corroborates (0.82) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 83
• Neoliberal reforms can proceed without an authoritarian political system #corroborates (0.75) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1542