Neoliberalism survived 2008 through deliberate strategy, not default

Evidence

For some on the left, this betokened evidence of relative decline of the MPS from its postwar heyday, or perhaps the participants had been just caught unawares, like most professional economists. Nevertheless, three years on, it now looks as though the neoliberals have come through the crisis unscathed. Far from the economic crisis constituting the invigorating jolt of the 1930s redux for the Neoliberal Thought Collective, early returns seemed instead to have ratified their intransigence, repetitiveness, and lack of imagination. Now it confirms that they were right to stick to their guns, because, contrary to every expectation, nothing much has been changed by the crisis. But the neoliberals have not won by default—that would be a sorry interpretation of events. Neoliberals don’t let a serious crisis go to waste. Instead, the thought collective subsequently made a number of moves that cemented their triumph. This book aims to document the strategies, and survey their successes. Many of these activities involved the economics profession. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 23

Categorization

• SEED: Could anchor an essay on how failed paradigms manufacture post-crisis legitimacy through thought-collective discipline rather than fresh ideas.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 23
• XREF: connects to: Neoliberalism survived the 2008 crisis intact, contrary to premature obituaries — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 75; Neoliberalism survived the 2008 crisis relatively unscathed. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 249; Neoliberalism survived 2008 by becoming an unrecognized everyday worldview — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 76 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberals actively engineered their post-crisis survival rather than winning by default #corroborates (1.00) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 23
• Neoliberalism survived the 2008 crisis intact, contrary to premature obituaries #corroborates (0.90) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 75
• Neoliberalism survived the 2008 crisis relatively unscathed. #corroborates (0.85) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 249
• The 2008 crisis reinforced rather than refuted neoliberal and orthodox economic doctrine #expands (0.85) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 100
• Neoliberal continuity survived via pragmatic adjustment, not doctrinal purity #qualifies (0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1615
• Neoliberalism survived 2008 by becoming an unrecognized everyday worldview #qualifies (0.80) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 76
• Left parties struggled to comprehend the swift neoliberal resurgence after 2008 #complicates (0.80) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 9
• Neo-neoliberalism achieves ubiquity through replication rather than movement #qualifies (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1877
• Neoliberalism operates from a unified playbook despite surface variation #contradicts (0.75) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 917