The economist's refrain of "this time is never different" (Rogoff and Reinhart, This Time Is Different) is taken to an extreme by Kean Birch, "Have We Ever Been Neoliberal?": "If financial crises have happened before—and they have, repeatedly [see Roubini and Mihm, Crisis Economics]—then this would suggest that neoliberalism has and does not necessarily play a consequential role in the current crisis."

Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis …, loc. 1787