In this sense, Brown is right that the contemporary liberal subject is so integrated into the goal of economic growth that she can easily be sacrificed to that end. And yet, rather than recent austerity politics ushering in a shift in neoliberal rationality 'from limitless to constrained, from freedom to sacrifice', as she puts it, the willingness to sacrifice individuals to the market was foundational to neoliberal thought.

Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, loc. 514