Apparently, one could reconcile oneself to live in a world where quantitatively more state apparat abided with quantitatively less slavery (or serfdom), which should quell the rather naive hand-wringing one sometimes encounters, complaining that a quarter-century of neoliberal ascendancy has done little to reduce the size of the state, no matter how you choose to measure it (Prasad 2006, 7–12).

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 2140