Here is Foucault formulating neoliberalism not as a 1980s political rebellion by new-Right populists, not as a vision heralded by a specific set of political leaders and economic craftsmen in the century’s final decades, but rather as an “emergence” over the second and third quarters of the twentieth century, already “the program of most governments of capitalist countries” at the time of his lectures.

Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, loc. 86