Neoliberalism expanded bureaucracy rather than eliminating it

Evidence

Blond notes a paradox that I also discuss in Capitalist Realism: rather than eliminating bureaucracy, as it promised to, neoliberalism has led to its proliferation. Since public services can never function as “proper” markets, the imposition of the “market solution” in healthcare and education “generates a huge and costly bureaucracy of accountants, examiners, inspectors, assessors and auditors, all concerned with assuring quality and asserting control that hinder innovation and experiment and lock in high cost.” — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1581

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Neoliberalism decentralized bureaucracy instead of abolishing it — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 43; Neoliberalism strips the state to military-police functions rather than abolishing it — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 558; Neoliberal marketisation imposed its own new bureaucracy — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1724 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberal marketisation imposed its own new bureaucracy #corroborates (1.00) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1724
• Neoliberalism strengthens repressive state apparatuses rather than shrinking government #corroborates (0.85) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1748
• Neoliberalism expands state penal power while professing to shrink government #corroborates (0.85) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 179
• Neoliberalism seeks to strengthen rather than shrink the state #corroborates (0.80) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2128
• Neoliberalism seeks to transform and take over the state, not shrink it #corroborates (0.75) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 117
• Rejecting parliamentarianism need not entail rehabilitating bureaucracy #qualifies (0.75) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 948