While one can readily endorse Corey Robin's insistence that the historical common denominator of conservatism has been that "the conservative favored liberty for the higher orders and constraint for the lower orders" (The Reactionary Mind, p. 8), there is indeed something more that sets the neoliberals apart, and helps explain their successes in the face of economic circumstances that should have shredded their credibility.

Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis …, loc. 2313