Some members of the Neoliberal Thought Collective, like Milton Friedman, have refused to define it altogether (other than to divorce it from democracy), while others like Friedrich Hayek forge links to thesis 2 by motivating it as an epistemic virtue: "the chief aim of freedom is to provide both the opportunity and the inducement to insure the maximum use of knowledge that an individual can accrue." As this curious definition illustrates, for neoliberals, what you think a market really is seems to determine your view of what liberty means.

Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis …, loc. 167