State interventionism itself was deployed to rescue and deepen the neoliberal model

Evidence

Altogether the measures taken to overcome the crisis were conceived as state interventionism designed to rescue the neoliberal model. Pinochet himself (quoted in Martínez and Díaz 1996, 98) considered the period “a case of sidestepping to recover strength.” The measures taken consolidated and deepened the social relations in support of the previously established and promoted export-oriented mode of production. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1605

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the wider historiography question of whether ‘neoliberalism’ is actually anti-state or a reconfiguration of state power — Margaret Thatcher’s and later Chile scholarship. — connects to: Neoliberalism expands state penal power while professing to shrink government — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 179; Neoliberal crisis response expanded rather than shrank state power — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 288; Behavioral economics serves neoliberal ends by defining the limits of state intervention. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 347 (+8 more)
• QUESTION: Worth pursuing: does this undermine the claim (in some literature) that Pinochet-era reforms were purely market-libertarian, and how does the ‘sidestepping’ framing echo in the later election of the 1990s?

Broader Connections

• State intervention to save capitalism exposed its supposedly natural order as political #corroborates (0.92) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 169
• State wartime intervention exposed the natural order of capitalism as a political choice #corroborates (0.85) — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 169
• Neoliberal policies produced experiments whose results fed yet more neoliberal projects #expands (0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1983
• Neoliberalism seeks to strengthen rather than shrink the state #qualifies (0.80) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2128
• Neoliberalism survives crises through deliberate policy adaptability, not fixed doctrine. #expands (0.80) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 206