A few such Anglo-American reactions reveal the fears involved in nailing neoliberal pudding to the wall: … Part of the difficulty comes from [an] attempt to both distinguish and write about neoliberal thought and neoliberal politics in one account. And part of it comes from the very nomenclature of Neoliberalism itself, an overtheorized term that lacks a historically specific constituency and has been applied haphazardly to nearly every feature of the globalized modern world. (Burns 2014, 260) … [Angus Burgin's] The Great Persuasion provides the most lucid account available of so-called "neoliberal" ideas that are associated with the Mont Pèlerin Society. . . . Nonetheless, "neoliberalism" has always been a slippery concept. As the term came in and out of use over the course of an oft-interrupted history, its meaning has varied, sometimes flipped on its head, and traded places with any number of alternative labels. (Brick 2014, 875) In .

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 17