The economic transformations of this period were stark, from the rise of austerity and the retrenchment of state welfare provision to the commodification of public services, the deregulation of the finance sector and growing indebtedness. Consequently, critics of neoliberalism have homed in on its economic agenda. Nonetheless, I contend that we cannot understand why human rights and neoliberalism flourished together if we view neoliberalism as an exclusively economic doctrine.

Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, loc. 14