Neoliberalism may not cohere as a unified doctrine in actual practice.

Evidence

These thirteen more or less echt-commandments gathered here characterize the rough shape of the program eventually arrived at by the Neoliberal Thought Collective. In this summary, I have sought to highlight the stark divergence from both classical liberalism and libertarianism; further, the individual tenets will also serve as touchstones for our account of the intellectual history of the global economic crisis in subsequent chapters. Yet, having strained to discern unity in what sometimes appears a free-for-all, we should now confront the contrary proposition—that neoliberalism, in some fundamental conceptual sense, does not hang together in actual practice. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 185

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: 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 novel doctrine in flux, not a return to laissez-faire — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 439; Neoliberalism’s cohesion comes from thought-collective structure, not explicit doctrine — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 916 (+15 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism’s cohesion comes from thought-collective structure, not explicit doctrine #expands (0.85) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 916
• Neoliberalism encompassed bitter internal conflicts, not a unified doctrine. #corroborates (0.85) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 20
• Disputes over the word neoliberalism signaled real disagreement over its content #corroborates (0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 294
• Neoliberalism was a flexible project, not a fixed doctrine with essential content #corroborates (0.82) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 115
• Neoliberalism has a coherent crisis logic despite lacking fixed doctrine #qualifies (0.82) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 146
• Neoliberalism originated in contested debate, not a pure doctrine #corroborates (0.80) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 405
• Neoliberalism is a self-consciously evolving thought collective, not a fixed catechism #corroborates (0.80) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 141
• Neoliberalism is a novel doctrine in flux, not a return to laissez-faire #corroborates (0.78) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 439
• Neoliberalism is best understood as open problems, not fixed solutions #corroborates (0.78) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 162
• Neoliberalism lacks a stable meaning or historically specific constituency #corroborates (0.78) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 17
• Contingency scholars reject theoretical coherence in explaining neoliberal policy #corroborates (0.75)
• The neoliberal thought collective may deliberately split its doctrine into exoteric and esoteric versions #expands (0.75) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 188
• Neoliberalism operates through systematic contradiction and disavowal of its own practices #complicates (0.72) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 81
• Neoliberalism holds together several unresolved internal contradictions by asserting both sides at once #complicates (0.72) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2142