Neoliberalism survived the 2008 crisis intact, contrary to premature obituaries

Evidence

It is one thing to glibly appeal to a nefarious “Shock Doctrine” (see Naomi Klein), it is another to comprehend in detail how the reckoning was evaded: something here dubbed the “Shock Block Doctrine.” Neoliberalism is alive and well; those on the receiving end need to know why. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 75

Categorization

• SEED: Contrasting ‘Shock Doctrine’ with ‘Shock Block Doctrine’ could anchor an essay on how crisis windows close.
• XREF: Directly frames the book’s core question of how austerity survived 2008, the reader’s stated focus. — connects to: Neoliberalism survived 2008 through deliberate strategy, not default — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 23; Neoliberalism survived the 2008 crisis relatively unscathed. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 249; Crisis commentary from 2008-10 shared one syllogism, that failure proves neoliberalism dying — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 93 (+7 more)
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 75

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism survived the 2008 crisis relatively unscathed. #corroborates (1.00) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 249
• The 2008 crisis reinforced rather than refuted neoliberal and orthodox economic doctrine #corroborates (0.90) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 100
• Crises have not discredited neoliberal governance #corroborates (0.88) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 749
• Neoliberals actively engineered their post-crisis survival rather than winning by default #expands (0.82) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 23
• Neoliberalism survived 2008 by becoming an unrecognized everyday worldview #qualifies (0.80) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 76
• Neoliberalism survives crises through deliberate policy adaptability, not fixed doctrine. #expands (0.80) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 206
• Neoliberal continuity survived via pragmatic adjustment, not doctrinal purity #expands (0.80) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1615
• Crisis commentary from 2008-10 shared one syllogism, that failure proves neoliberalism dying #corroborates (0.78) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 93
• The 2008 crisis replaced triumphalist free-market rhetoric with open-ended austerity #qualifies (0.72) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 158