Economic liberalism defines the political, collapsing the distinction between them

Evidence

Not Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau, but Smith and Bentham articulate liberalism’s basic problematic and principles. Put another way, for Foucault, there is no significant divergence between economic and political liberalism when they are viewed from the perspective of the economic orientation, limitation, and legitimacy of government and from the perspective of the subject of interest. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 100

Categorization

• XREF: Directly sets up Chapter 3’s critique of the neglect of liberalism’s political/democratic aspects — democratic imaginary flagged by Brown. — connects to: Economic liberalism proved separable from democratic political commitments. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 323; Interwar British liberalism re-founded itself on economics rather than politics — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 395; Neoliberal homo oeconomicus dissolves the citizen-bourgeois split that defined liberal democratic political life. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 546 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism is a caricature of liberalism reduced to a theory of economic organization #corroborates (0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2121
• Economic and juridical-political thought are heterogeneous and incompatible worlds #contradicts (0.85) — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 1454
• Neoclassical economics rebranded political economy to hide power relations #corroborates (0.80) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 31
• Formal political equality masks deep economic servitude that hollows out democracy #complicates (0.72) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 406