Neoliberals diagnosed intellectual hostility to markets as resentment, utopianism, and ignorance.

Evidence

Böhm suggested that the effort to support entrepreneurs needed to be concentrated on the image of the market order. He offered three reasons for the intellectual opposition to entrepreneurs and the market: resentment, utopian ideas, and lack of knowledge. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 286

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Neoliberals pathologised political struggle by framing the market as peaceful and politics as violent — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 64; Neoliberalism reframed democracy and unions as enemies of market truth. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 123; Neoliberal market discipline deliberately breaks political subjectivity and weakens solidarity. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 334 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberals pathologised political struggle by framing the market as peaceful and politics as violent #expands (0.82) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 64
• Neoliberalism reframed democracy and unions as enemies of market truth. #qualifies (0.75) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 123
• Neoliberal market discipline deliberately breaks political subjectivity and weakens solidarity. #complicates (0.72) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 334