Treating culture and economics as separate spheres misreads how neoliberalism operates

Evidence

Tom Frank in an earlier incarnation had seemingly understood this: “Making the world safe for billionaires has been as much a cultural and political operation as an economic one”; it was only when he artificially set them at odds that he attained best-sellerdom with Kansas, but at the price of losing his way. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 298

Categorization

• SEED: Article angle: why pop-critique bestsellers (like Frank’s ‘Kansas’) fail by compartmentalizing the cultural from the economic, and what a properly integrated critique would look like.
• XREF: connects to: Neoliberalism persists through pervasive cultural imagery, not popular political theory — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 246; Neoliberalism’s durability rests on fusing the economic with the cultural — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 298; Economic-reductionist cultural theory stays trapped at an epochal level of abstraction (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Bifurcating politics and economics undermines left critique of neoliberalism #corroborates (0.85) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 431
• Economic-reductionist cultural theory stays trapped at an epochal level of abstraction #qualifies (0.75)