The economy functions as model, object, and project of neoliberal state rationality.
Evidence
With neoliberalism, the political rationality of the state becomes economic in a triple sense: the economy is at once model, object, and project. That is, economic principles become the model for state conduct, the economy becomes the primary object of state concern and policy, and the marketization of domains and conduct is what the state seeks to disseminate everywhere. … Again, neoliberal political rationality does not merely marketize in the sense of monetizing all social conduct and social relations, but, more radically, casts them in an exclusively economic frame, one that has both epistemological and ontological dimensions. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 107
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Governments conflate capitalist economic rationality with rationality itself. — Clara E. Mattei, Escape from Capitalism, 369; Neoliberalism pivoted from the economy to the framework encasing it — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the…, 88; TARP was framed as market construction, mirroring emissions-trading as a neoliberal instrument. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 943 (+12 more)
Broader Connections
- Neoliberalism defined itself in opposition to the constructed object of the economy
#expands(0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 1919 - Neoliberalism is a governing rationality that frames all life in market terms
#expands(0.80) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 357 - Treating culture and economics as separate spheres misreads how neoliberalism operates
#corroborates(0.75) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 298 - Neoliberalism redefined liberty as economic rather than political.
#expands(0.75) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 380