Market rule, technocratic insulation, and claims of economic objectivity reinforce each other

Evidence

Th ese three conventions were mutually supportive. Cultivating a notion of economic objectivity (3), for example, fi rst required the rehabilitation of the rule of the impersonal laws of the market (1). Th is, particularly in a moment of high contestation, could only be achieved through their unchecked governance (2). — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order, 650

Categorization

  • DEFINE: Shows the logical interdependence of depoliticization’s components.
  • XREF: connects to: Neoliberalism sought to encase markets in extra-economic rules, not unleash them — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the…, 70; Intellectual mentality and money economy mutually reinforce each other; Neoliberals rejected the pure state-versus-market binary as a false dichotomy — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 9 (+1 more)

Broader Connections