This abiding somatic integrity of the self is the last great double truth of the neoliberal era. It is the rock-solid foundation of our freedom, and yet the fleeting evanescent product of the imperative of flexibility. It is a myth promoted by the orthodox neoclassical economist, if only because dispelling it would reveal the great gaping emptiness of their entire edifice: Should we bar people from improving a very bad economic lot because it requires a deprivation of their personhood?

Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis …, loc. 415