Considering the expansion of neoliberalism over the last few decades, Perry Anderson (2000) speaks of a universal ideology. The extent to which neoliberal ideas have been widely accepted, even in nominally hostile environments of Social Democratic parties or formerly communist regimes such as China, requires closer scrutiny if the authority of neoliberal knowledge is not simply taken at face value.

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 80