This is one place where I must demur from the otherwise perceptive Jamie Peck ("Zombie Neoliberalism and the Ambidextrous State"). Surely neoliberalism is beset with internal contradictions; but it is also important to have some appreciation for the lack of identity between the neoliberal program and the statecraft that can often fail in its implementation.

Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis …, loc. 1778