The 2008 crisis produced no genuine reform and empowered the political right

Evidence

Conjure, if you will, a primal sequence encountered in B-grade horror films, where the celluloid protagonist suffers a terrifying encounter with doom, yet on the cusp of disaster abruptly wakes to a different world, which initially seems normal, but eventually is revealed to be a second nightmare more ghastly than the first. Something like that has become manifest in real life since the onset of the crisis which started in 2007. … Not only had the sense of crisis passed without any serious attempts to rectify the flaws that had nearly caused the economy to grind to a halt, but unaccountably, the political right had emerged from the tumult stronger, unapologetic, and even less restrained in its rapacity and credulity than prior to the crash. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 8

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the books thesis statement that crisis was ‘never let go to waste’ — this frames the central paradox the whole chapter will explain. — connects to: The 2008 crisis strengthened rather than weakened the political right — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 8; The 2008 crisis was expected to falsify neoliberal doctrine but did not — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 80; The 2008 crisis disoriented the left instead of vindicating its economic worldview — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 46 (+8 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: Less dense than a top-tier passage but frames the puzzle at the heart of the whole book.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 8

Broader Connections

• The 2008 crisis strengthened rather than weakened the political right #corroborates (0.95) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 8
• The 2008 crisis paradoxically strengthened right-wing and austerity politics worldwide #corroborates (0.95) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 9
• The 2008 crisis reinforced rather than refuted neoliberal and orthodox economic doctrine #corroborates (0.90) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 100
• The 2007-8 crisis failed to dislodge neoliberal policy dominance. #corroborates (0.90) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 609
• The 2008 crisis was expected to falsify neoliberal doctrine but did not #corroborates (0.85) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 80
• The 2008 crisis killed none of the economic ideas that caused it #corroborates (0.85) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 44
• The 2008 crisis disoriented the left instead of vindicating its economic worldview #corroborates (0.80) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 46
• The 2008 financial collapse produced no accountable wrongdoers and no industry reform #corroborates (0.80) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1564
• The 2008 crisis failed to produce a paradigmatic shift comparable to the New Deal. #corroborates (0.75) — Natascha van der Zwan, Making Sense of Financialization, 115
• Opponents of neoliberalism could not locate the intellectual roots of the 2008 crisis #corroborates (0.70) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 16
• The 2008 crisis replaced triumphalist free-market rhetoric with open-ended austerity #expands (0.70) — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 158