Neoliberals rejected population-level statistics and risk insurance as hubristic

Evidence

Early neoliberalism was deeply sceptical about the statistical and standardising practices embraced by the ILO. They saw the attempt to ‘tame chance’ by using statistics and social surveys to calculate and insure against risks at the level of the population as hubristic. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 210

Categorization

• XREF: Mirrors the reader’s ‘One Square Inch of Silence’ reading on the taming of noise/risk through measurement; also connects to Beck’s risk society theory. — connects to: Neoliberal risk thinking undermines the actuarial categories classical insurance requires — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 336; Neoliberal culture recasts welfare-state dependence as a moral failure to embrace risk — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 338; Neoliberals abandoned economic measurement for institutional design after the 1930s — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the…, 76 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberals abandoned economic measurement for institutional design after the 1930s #expands (0.80) — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 76