Some warn against our use of Ludwig Fleck's and Karl Mannheim's notion of a thought collective to deal with neoliberals as a unit, although this was mostly a device to circumvent the widespread tendency to lose sight of the wood for the trees. Although we do not usually gravitate to the center, we consider it truly important to walk the fine line between exceedingly diffuse and monolithic, oversimplified identities of neoliberalism.

Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, loc. 10