Another partially rival approach to defining the market emanated from German ordoliberalism, which argues that competition in a well-functioning market needs to be directly organized by the state, by embedding it in various other social institutions. Hence, contrary to much that has been written on the beliefs of our protagonists, neoliberals do not speak with one voice on the key concept of the nature of the market. They most certainly do not uniformly subscribe to neoclassical economic theory, nor do they all pledge their troth to the cybernetic vision of the market in lockstep.

Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis …, loc. 151