Neoliberal policies produced experiments whose results fed yet more neoliberal projects

Evidence

The results of the natural experiment made possible by the programs of neoliberalism were written into further neoliberal projects. The organization of experiments, both caged and in the wild, would continue. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1983

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Neoliberal theories succeed as policy rhetoric despite having scant evidence — Mark Blyth, Austerity: The History of a Dangerous…, 425; Neoliberal funders treated policy influence as a vertically integrated production pipeline — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 127; Individual geoengineering project failures still serve the broader neoliberal project. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 935 (+14 more)

Broader Connections

• Neo-neoliberalism achieves ubiquity through replication rather than movement #expands (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1877
• Neoliberalism self-consciously planned as a multi-generational intellectual project #expands (0.72) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 116