Neoliberalism, in this sense, has less to do with older forms of economic liberalism which sought to mobilize the free market as a force for freedom, individualism and peace and more to do with the governmentality of the market over social life, the ways that those biopolitical tasks once monopolized by the state might be contrived, mobilized and executed by the forces of capital and in their interests (2008, 130–131). Elsewhere, Scott Stoneman and I (2009) have suggested that Walmart should be understood as a "panopticon of time," a corporate manifestation that brings Foucault's famous emblematic prison thoroughly into the neoliberal moment, evolving a diverse, flexible, networked institution that both fundamentally delimits social time and helps produce a range of subjectivities germane to and productive of neoliberal social and economic norms.

Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, loc. 263