Like all really powerful political movements, neoliberalism attempts to reconcile any number of implacable antinomies by repeatedly squaring the circle. This goes some distance in explaining why, by the late 1950s, the neoliberal thought collective abruptly stopped asserting they were engaged in the construction of a “new liberalism” and subsequently suppressed all notions of a rupture with previous classical liberal doctrines, contrary to all evidence.

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 2136