Neoliberal markets and selves co-evolve through mutual trial-and-error adjustment

Evidence

The jumble that gets lumped together as “the market” is constructed on the fly in such situations; and it is as much a bricolage as its counterpart, the neoliberal construct of the self. Both are not constructed top-down, from blueprints kindly supplied by Mont Pèlerin, nor bottom-up through the aimless evolution of the kosmos, but rather outward, in trial-and-error mutual adjustment of the politically fortified market and the everyday entrepreneurial self. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 288

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘bricolage’ account of market and self echoes the governance-of-the-self literature and the assembly of the market as a political construction. — connects to: Neoliberalism works best when subjects willingly internalize market logic through everyday micro-interactions; Neoliberals conditioned self-government on accepting market discipline — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 297; Neoliberalism works best when subjects voluntarily adopt market-logic selves — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 21

Broader Connections

• Neoliberals conditioned self-government on accepting market discipline #expands (0.75) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 297