Jamal Awil

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Precisely because the unpredictability of capitalist evolution is an article of faith for neoliberals. [causal]

Part of the capacity of neoliberalism to survive a series of what should have been existential crises must be credited to the adaptability of its basic policy prescriptions. Because neoliberals believe that markets are not natural but made possible through human intervention, they also believe that different circumstances require different solutions. Precisely because the unpredictability of capitalist evolution is an article of faith for neoliberals of the Hayekian variety, there can be no final blueprint.

Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, loc. 206