Neoliberalism’s survival after 2008 meant losing its unchallenged narrative, not its policy program.

Evidence

This naturalization of market logic (or “values,” to use Massimo de Angelis’s language) was nothing more than a spell. This spell was broken in 2008, a year after The Beginning of History was published. The point of all this: When I argue that we now live in a postneoliberal world, I do not mean that its practices or program have ceased (Ireland, Greece, and Portugal make it loud and clear that it’s alive and kicking), but that the narrative of the market’s universality is no longer unchallenged. The market is not the one and all; it has an outside, it has a limit. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 88

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘postneoliberal’ precisely — as collapse of the market’s universalist narrative rather than the end of its practices.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 88
• XREF: connects to: Neoliberalism survived 2008 by becoming an unrecognized everyday worldview — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 76; Neoliberalism’s opponents, not its own theory, collapsed after the crisis — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 25; Left academics wrongly assumed the 2008 crash would doom neoliberalism — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 93 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism survived the 2008 crisis relatively unscathed. #qualifies (0.80) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 249
• Neoliberalism’s durability rested on transforming culture and winning over former opponents #expands (0.80) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1607
• Neoliberalism survived 2008 by becoming an unrecognized everyday worldview #qualifies (0.78) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 76
• Neoliberalism’s scientific program collapsed under its own ideological contradictions #contradicts (0.78) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 92
• Left academics wrongly assumed the 2008 crash would doom neoliberalism #corroborates (0.75) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 93
• Neoliberalism’s opponents, not its own theory, collapsed after the crisis #qualifies (0.74) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 25