Proclamations that neoliberalism is dead recur after nearly every major political shift

Evidence

Neoliberalism is dead again. After the election of Donald J. Trump, political economist Mark Blyth declared the “era of neoliberalism is over,” intellectual historian Samuel Moyn tweeted neoliberalism “RIP,” and Cornel West wrote that “the neoliberal era in the United States ended with a neofascist bang.” Such pronouncements recur with regularity. A quarter-century ago, a Latin American politician deemed neoliberalism “dead” after the election of another US president—Bill Clinton. Obituaries resurfaced as critiques of the Washington Consensus in the wake of the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997, returned on the crest of the Latin American pink tide (Evo Morales declared “neoliberalism is dead” in 2003), and peaked in the wake of the near-collapse of the global financial system in 2008. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 11

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Neoliberalism survived 2008 by becoming an unrecognized everyday worldview — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 76; Declarations that neoliberalism is dead have recurred for decades

Broader Connections

• Declarations that neoliberalism is dead have recurred for decades #corroborates (0.95)