Economization has no fixed content across different political eras

Evidence

Widespread economization of heretofore noneconomic domains, activities, and subjects, but not necessarily marketization or monetization of them, then, is the distinctive signature of neoliberal rationality. However, “economization” is itself a broad term, with no constant content or force across different historical and spatial instantiations of “economy.” To say that neoliberalism construes subjects as relentlessly economic actors does not tell us in what roles. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 51

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Schmitt, Arendt, and Lefort’s separate critiques of economizing the political; Brown distinguishes her account from theirs. — connects to: Neoliberalism lacks a stable meaning or historically specific constituency — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 17; Economic abstractions are historically determined, not universal or extra-historical; Economic change does not directly supply the content of capitalist ideas

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism lacks a stable meaning or historically specific constituency #corroborates (0.91) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 17
• Economic abstractions are historically determined, not universal or extra-historical #corroborates (0.82)
• Economic change does not directly supply the content of capitalist ideas #corroborates (0.78)