Neoliberals pushed to make regulatory science itself market-governed.

Evidence

Neoliberals denied that the scientific community could access knowledge apart from the marketplace. Such efforts gave rise to what amounted to a third skinning strategy: the science used by regulatory bodies should itself be regulated by the marketplace. Neoliberals would now actively encourage the commercialization of science; they also begin to engage in direct intervention into the conduct of science itself, thereby introducing multitudinous ways for regulated industries to harness it. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 157

Categorization

• SEED: Could become an essay on how the ‘regulate the regulators’ move applied to scientific knowledge itself — a distinct third phase of neoliberal policy beyond privatization and deregulation.
• XREF: Connects to Quinn Slobodian’s globalist thesis and to Philip Mirowski’s earlier work on the neoliberal ‘marketplace of ideas’ appropriation of anti-totalitarian rhetoric. — connects to: Neoliberalism wants science dissolved into market activity — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 231; Early neoliberals treated public regulation as a greater threat than private monopoly — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 744

Broader Connections

• Early neoliberals treated public regulation as a greater threat than private monopoly #expands (0.80) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 744