Neoliberalism is internally plural yet not formless

Evidence

The Road from Mont Pèlerin may have inadvertently contributed to some of the confusion surrounding the core subject by emphasizing areas of ambiguity, neoliberal pluralism, and historical diversity of actually existing neoliberalism. Yet our effort to get away from cookie-cutter models of neoliberalism was decidedly not an invitation to think of neoliberalism as utterly amorphous. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 10

Categorization

• XREF: This methodological via media between diffuse and monolithic maps onto the broader historiographic debate over whether neoliberalism is a coherent project or a contested label. — connects to: Neoclassical economics and the Neoliberal Thought Collective are distinct movements — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 71; Neoliberalism was never a unified doctrine but three distinct sects from its founding. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 120; Neoliberalism is a self-consciously evolving thought collective, not a fixed catechism — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 141 (+34 more)
• DEFINE: Clarifies the book’s working definition of neoliberalism as plural but bounded, neither cookie-cutter nor amorphous.

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism’s internal plurality is strategic strength, not weakness #expands (0.92) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1014
• Neoliberalism is a mode of reason that is globally ubiquitous yet nonidentical with itself #expands (0.88) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 29
• Neoliberalism lacks a stable meaning or historically specific constituency #contradicts (0.82) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 17
• Neoliberalism holds together several unresolved internal contradictions by asserting both sides at once #responds-to (0.75) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2142