Jamal Awil

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Neoliberalism figures interest as both a psychology that drives rational choices. [fact]

92 “Neoliberalism figures interest as both a psychology that drives rational choices, and as the good achieved by those choices. Subjective and objective interests are thus rendered neatly compatible: questions of false consciousness on the one hand, or of a ‘real interest’ that exceeds what people can realize by means of price-taking choices on the other, are not so much answered as they are rendered unintelligible” (Mathiowetz, Appeals to Interest).

Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis …, loc. 1869