Neoliberalism’s resilience stems from multiple strategies for managing popular will

Evidence

Viewing neoliberalism through the lens of Friedman has the effect of considering only one possible approach to the neoliberal problem of the public, and thereby introducing a grave misunderstanding about how neoliberalism works. There was, as Stigler argued, more than one way to skin this cat, more than one strategy to triumph over the will of the public. By understanding these strategies we may come to better appreciate the reason neoliberalism itself has had “nine lives.” — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 100

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘nine lives’ framing directly connects to the book’s own title thesis about internal variety. — connects to: Neoliberalism’s resilience rests on deliberate epistemic inconsistency across discourse levels. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 93; Neoliberalism’s deliberate epistemic inconsistencies enabled its long-term success; Neoliberalism operates from a unified playbook despite surface variation — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 917 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism’s internal plurality is strategic strength, not weakness #expands (0.88) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1014
• Neoliberalism’s resilience rests on deliberate epistemic inconsistency across discourse levels. #corroborates (0.85) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 93
• Neoliberalism survives crises through deliberate policy adaptability, not fixed doctrine. #expands (0.85) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 206
• Neoliberal continuity survived via pragmatic adjustment, not doctrinal purity #corroborates (0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1615
• Neoliberalism’s deliberate epistemic inconsistencies enabled its long-term success #corroborates (0.82)
• Neoliberalism operates from a unified playbook despite surface variation #qualifies (0.75) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 917
• Capitalism’s resilience comes from its plasticity in adopting new social forms #corroborates (0.72) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1647
• Neoliberalism transforms the self so that crises stop being read as system failures #complicates (0.72) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 302