Naomi Klein identified Carl Schmitt’s sovereign-emergency doctrine as a core neoliberal tenet

Evidence

But things are getting better of late. Naomi Klein (2007) manages to identify some of the key doctrines, especially when she quotes the German political theorist Carl Schmitt: “Sovereign is he who decides the state of emergency” (p. 131). — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2157

Categorization

• XREF: Carl Schmitt’s emergency-sovereignty doctrine prefigures shock-doctrine arguments about neoliberal catastrophe capitalism on the reader’s shelf. — connects to: Early neoliberalism crystallized partly in intellectual dialogue with Carl Schmitt’s anti-liberalism — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 358; Neoliberals invoked Carl Schmitt’s sovereignty doctrine to justify backing the Chilean coup — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 2149; Neoliberal spontaneous-order rhetoric masks theorists’ Schmittian power to define state sovereignty — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 2196 (+3 more)
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how deep is the Schmitt-Hayek connection the author keeps pointing to?

Broader Connections

• Neoliberal spontaneous-order rhetoric masks theorists’ Schmittian power to define state sovereignty #expands (0.87) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2196
• Crisis lets neoliberal officials arrogate sovereign power to define emergencies #expands (0.82) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 945
• Carl Schmitt’s writings link political theology to total enmity and the total state. #expands (0.80) — Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 1814
• Neoliberalism’s double-truth doctrine originated in Hayek’s covert borrowing from Schmitt #expands (0.75) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 239