Neoliberal authors produce obfuscating scholarship that disguises the movement’s own practices

Evidence

To avoid testing the reader’s patience, I will not deal here with more recent academic works that pursue obfuscation to ever greater degrees, such as Bockman, Markets in the Name of Socialism, which argues that the origins of neoliberalism should be traced to Eastern European socialist intellectuals. Worse is Zingales, A Capitalism for the People, which attempts to argue that neoliberalism is pro-capitalism, but hostile to the elite rich and their political power. This latter work is an exemplar of the neoliberal practice of the manufacture of ignorance, discussed later in this chapter. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 1821

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to recent debates about ‘neoliberalism as pro-capitalism/anti-plutocrat’ framing in authors like Zingales and to the literature tracing neoliberalism’s origins to East European socialist economists. — connects to: Neoliberalism operates through systematic contradiction and disavowal of its own practices — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 81; Neoliberal freedom-of-inquiry rhetoric was aimed at promoting their own market views within academia — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 122; Neoliberals deliberately combined elite scholarship with populist simplification — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 87 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism operates through systematic contradiction and disavowal of its own practices #corroborates (0.90) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 81
• Neoliberal freedom-of-inquiry rhetoric was aimed at promoting their own market views within academia #exemplifies (0.78) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 122
• Neoliberals deliberately combined elite scholarship with populist simplification #expands (0.75) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 87