Neoliberalism has a coherent crisis logic despite lacking fixed doctrine

Evidence

Clearly, neoliberals do not navigate with a fixed static Utopia as the astrolabe for all their political strivings. They could not, since they don’t even agree on such basic terms as “market” and “freedom” in all respects, as we shall observe below. One can even agree with Brenner et al. and Naomi Klein that crisis is the preferred field of action for neoliberals, since that offers more latitude for introduction of bold experimental ‘reforms’ that only precipitate further crises down the road. Nevertheless, Neoliberalism does not dissolve into a gormless empiricism or random pragmatism. There persists a certain logic to the way it approaches crises; and that is directly relevant to comprehending its unexpected strength in the current global crisis. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 146

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Klein’s shock doctrine thesis and Brenner, and sets up the Thirteen Commandments to follow. — connects to: Crises recurring across eras implies neoliberalism may not cause them — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 1787; Neoliberals actively engineered their post-crisis survival rather than winning by default — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 23; Neoliberalism survives crises through deliberate policy adaptability, not fixed doctrine. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 206 (+16 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism survives crises through deliberate policy adaptability, not fixed doctrine. #corroborates (0.90) — 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
• Crises have not discredited neoliberal governance #expands (0.80) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 749
• The 2008 crisis was expected to falsify neoliberal doctrine but did not #exemplifies (0.80) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 80
• Neoliberalism’s internal plurality is strategic strength, not weakness #corroborates (0.80) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1014
• Neoliberalism is best understood as open problems, not fixed solutions #expands (0.78) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 162
• Neoliberalism is internally plural yet not formless #expands (0.78) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 10
• Neoliberalism holds together several unresolved internal contradictions by asserting both sides at once #expands (0.75) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2142