Sacrificing individuals to the market was foundational to neoliberalism from the start.

Evidence

In this sense, Brown is right that the contemporary liberal subject is so integrated into the goal of economic growth that she can easily be sacrificed to that end. And yet, rather than recent austerity politics ushering in a shift in neoliberal rationality ‘from limitless to constrained, from freedom to sacrifice’, as she puts it, the willingness to sacrifice individuals to the market was foundational to neoliberal thought. — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 514

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Challenges the common periodization that austerity marks a new phase of neoliberal sacrifice; instead locates sacrifice at the founding moment, complicating Wendy Brown’s narrative.
• XREF: Engages Wendy Brown’s Undoing the Demos; connects to the reader’s human-rights/economics debate through the question of when sacrifice of the subject to the market became normalized. — connects to: Neoliberal market discipline was adopted to pacify unruly democratic publics — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 122; Neoliberals favored deterrent poor-relief because generous dole undermined market discipline — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 218; Austerity transforms neoliberal rationality from freedom toward sacrifice. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 135 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberal market discipline was adopted to pacify unruly democratic publics #expands (0.85) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 122
• Neoliberals favored deterrent poor-relief because generous dole undermined market discipline #exemplifies (0.85) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 218
• Austerity transforms neoliberal rationality from freedom toward sacrifice. #qualifies (0.82) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 135
• Neoliberals conditioned self-government on accepting market discipline #expands (0.80) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 297