Market ideology primarily targets state intervention, not consumption.

Evidence

The passion for the market was indeed always political, as Albert O. Hirschman’s great book The Passions and the Interests taught us. The market, finally, for “market ideology,” has less to do with consumption than it has to do with government intervention, and indeed with the evils of freedom and human nature itself. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 594

Categorization

  • XREF: Points to Hirschman’s The Passions and the Interests — a natural reading-list addition for the cognitive-map project. — connects to: The market must be actively constituted by political intervention, not discovered — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 1852
  • DEFINE: Reframes what ‘market ideology’ really argues about — a definitional correction useful for the reader’s explanatory project.