Neoliberal policy converts every human need, even bodily ones, into profit-making enterprises.

Evidence

Neoliberalism is most commonly understood as enacting an ensemble of economic policies in accord with its root principle of affirming free markets. These include deregulation of industries and capital flows; radical reduction in welfare state provisions and protections for the vulnerable; privatized and outsourced public goods, ranging from education, parks, postal services, roads, and social welfare to prisons and militaries; replacement of progressive with regressive tax and tariff schemes; the end of wealth redistribution as an economic or social-political policy; the conversion of every human need or desire into a profitable enterprise, from college admissions preparation to human organ transplants, from baby adoptions to pollution rights, from avoiding lines to securing legroom on an airplane; and, most recently, the financialization of everything and the increasing dominance of finance capital over productive capital in the dynamics of the economy and everyday life. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 43

Categorization

• DEFINE: Catalogues the standard economic-policy sense of neoliberalism that Brown will then redefine as governing rationality.
• XREF: connects to: Neoliberalism extends market logic to regulate all human behavior. — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 32; Neoliberalism generalizes the enterprise form across the entire social body — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at…, 823; Neoliberalism is a governing rationality that frames all life in market terms — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 357 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism is a governing rationality that frames all life in market terms #corroborates (0.92) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 357
• Neoliberalism generalizes the enterprise form across the entire social body #expands (0.90) — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 823
• Neoliberalism redefined human being itself as human capital. #expands (0.88) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 134
• Neo-liberalism collapses labor into capital and frames the individual as an enterprise #expands (0.85) — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 1218