Neoliberalism is perhaps most tellingly viewed as a sort of caricature of liberalism, where liberal concerns for individual liberty, political equality and human rights have been warped into a purely economic ideology whose concerns lie with the establishment of free markets and in keeping state intervention in such markets at bay. Neoliberalism thus understood is primarily a theory of how the economy ought to be organized, and not a political ideology in the same sense as political liberalism.

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 2121