Neoliberalism’s internal divisions can yield sharper historiography rather than analytic incoherence

Evidence

Where does the story of intellectual property leave us? The mismatch between the divisive discussion of IP within neoliberal circles and the bluntness of its application in foreign economic policy should not lead us to throw our hands up in despair at the incoherence of neoliberalism as a category of analysis. Rather, the neoliberal confrontation with the intellectual problem can help to distinguish between three ways of historicizing neoliberalism that have surfaced in recent scholarship. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 201

Categorization

• QUESTION: Pivots to ‘three ways of historicizing neoliberalism’ that the chapter should now unfold; this is a thesis-structure marker.
• XREF: connects to: Neoliberalism’s internal plurality is strategic strength, not weakness — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 1014

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism’s internal plurality is strategic strength, not weakness #corroborates (0.82) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1014