Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown
by Philip Mirowski · 24 Jun 2013 · 662pp · 180,546 words
Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown Philip Mirowski To neoliberals of all parties Contents List of Tables List of Figures 1. One More Red Nightmare The Crisis That Didn’t Change Much of
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: Oxford University Press, 2008). Miller, Merton. “Financial Innovation: The Last 20 Years and the Next,” Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 21 (1986): 459–71. Mirowski, Philip. “The Cowles Anti-Keynesians,” in Pedro Duarte and Gilberto Lima, eds., Microfoundations Reconsidered: The Relationship of Micro and Macroeconomics in Historical Perspective (Cheltenham, U.K
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.: Elgar, 2012). Mirowski, Philip. “Defining Neoliberalism,” in Mirowski and Plehwe, The Road from Mont Pèlerin. Mirowski, Philip. “Does the Victor Enjoy the Spoils? Paul Samuelson as Historian of Economic Thought,” Journal of the History of Economic Thought
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35 (2013): 1–17. Mirowski, Philip. The Effortless Economy of Science? (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2004). Mirowski, Philip. “The Great Mortification,” Hedgehog Review 12 (2
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) (Summer 2010): 28–41. Mirowski, Philip. “Inherent Vice: Minsky, Markomata, and the Tendency of Markets to Undermine Themselves,” Journal
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of Institutional Economics 6 (2010): 415–43. Mirowski, Philip. Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science (New York: Cambridge
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University Press, 2002). Mirowski, Philip. “Markets Come to Bits,” Journal of Economic Behavior and
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Organization 63 (2007): 209–42. Mirowski, Philip. More Heat Than Light: Economics as Social Physics (New York: Cambridge
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University Press, 1989). Mirowski, Philip. “Naturalizing the Market on the Road to Revisionism: Caldwell on Hayek
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’s Challenge,” Journal of Institutional Economics 3 (2007): 351–72. Mirowski, Philip. ScienceMart: Privatizing American Science (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard
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University Press, 2011). Mirowski, Philip. “Why There Is (as Yet) No Such Thing as an Economics of Knowledge,” in Harold Kincaid and Don Ross, eds
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., Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Economics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), pp. 99–156. Mirowski, Philip, and Dieter Plehwe, eds. The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009). Mollenkamp, Carrick, Serena
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Versus Cowles Planning: Perspectives on Patents and Public Goods,” Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences 47 (2011): 302–21. Van Horn, Robert, and Philip Mirowski. “The Rise of the Chicago School and the Birth of Neoliberalism,” in Mirowski and Plehwe, The Road from Mont Pèlerin. Van Horn, Robert
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, Philip Mirowski, and Thomas Stapleford, eds. Building Chicago Economics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011). Veblen, Thorstein. The Theory of the Leisure Class (New York: Mentor, 1953).
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(World Trade Organization) Y Yale University Z Zingales, Luigi Zoellick, Robert Zombie Economics (Quiggin) Zuccotti Park Zuidhof, Peter-Wim Copyright First published by Verso 2013 © Philip Mirowski 2013 All rights reserved The moral rights of the author have been asserted Verso UK: 6 Meard Street, London W1F 0EG US: 20 Jay Street
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catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Mirowski, Philip, 1951– Never let a serious crisis go to waste : how neoliberalism survived the financial meltdown / Philip Mirowski. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-781-68079-7 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1
Globalists
by Quinn Slobodian · 16 Mar 2018 · 451pp · 142,662 words
a “super-conscious” level. Hayek’s “neuro-sensory conjecture” has been explored deeply by scholars both sympathetic to and critical of his thinking.76 What Philip Mirowski calls Hayek’s “agnotology” is echoed in the presumption of “radical ignorance” of economic actors in the work of those who seek to explain why
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, 2012), 16; Keith Tribe, “Liberalism and Neoliberalism in Britain, 1930–1980,” in The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective, ed. Philip Mirowski and Dieter Plehwe (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009), 90; Sam Bowman, “Coming Out as Neoliberals,” Adam Smith Institute Blog, October 11, 2016, https://www
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.adamsmith.org/blog/coming-out-as-neoliberals. 13. Lars Feld quoted in Bert Losse, “Economic Neoliberalism: Philosophy of Freedom,” Handelsblatt Global, June 10, 2017. 14. Philip Mirowski, “The Political Movement That Dared Not Speak Its Own Name: The Neoliberal Thought Collective under Erasure,” Institute for New Economic Thinking Working Paper no. 23
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, no. 1 (2012): 47–68; Jean Solchany, Wilhelm Röpke, l’autre Hayek: Aux origines du néolibéralisme (Paris: Sorbonne, 2015); Stedman Jones, Masters of the Universe; Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown (New York: Verso, 2013); Milene Wegmann, Früher Neoliberalismus und Europäische Integration
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Money Economy (New York: Routledge, 2001), 8. 10. Dieter Plehwe, introduction to The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective, ed. Philip Mirowski and Dieter Plehwe (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009), 11. 11. Ludwig Mises, Memoirs (Auburn, AL: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2009), 77. 12. Alexander Hörtlehner
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Its Divisions: From the Colloque Walter Lippmann to the Fifth Republic,” in The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective, ed. Philip Mirowski and Dieter Plehwe (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009), 50. 115. Walter Lippmann, An Inquiry into the Principles of the Good Society (Boston: Little, Brown
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Knowledge (1937),” in Individualism and Economic Order, ed. F. A. Hayek (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1948), 39. 136. Ibid., 46. 137. Ibid., 50. 138. Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown (New York: Verso, 2013), chap. 4. 139. Hayek, “Economics and Knowledge
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, see Dieter Plehwe, “The Origins of the Neoliberal Economic Development Discourse,” in The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective, ed. Philip Mirowski and Dieter Plehwe (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009), 238–279; Jean Solchany, Wilhelm Röpke, l’autre Hayek: Aux origines du néolibéralisme (Paris: Sorbonne, 2015
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Brazil.” Dieter Plehwe, “The Origins of the Neoliberal Economic Development Discourse,” in The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective, ed. Philip Mirowski and Dieter Plehwe (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009), 274. 96. Robert Leonard, “The Collapse of Interwar Vienna: Oskar Morgenstern’s Community, 1925–50,” History
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. 12. Jennifer Bair, “Taking Aim at the New International Economic Order,” in The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective, ed. Philip Mirowski and Dieter Plehwe (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009); Özsu, “Neoliberalism and the New International Economic Order.” 13. Herbert G. Grubel, “The Case against the
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. A. Hayek, Law, Legislation and Liberty (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982), xviii–xix. (Three volumes published in one, with corrections and revised preface.) 37. Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown (New York: Verso, 2013), 54. 38. Peter Galison, “The Ontology of
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. Ibid. 54. Paul Lewis and Peter Lewin, “Orders, Orders, Everywhere … On Hayek’s The Market and Other Orders,” Cosmos and Taxis 2 (2015): 15. 55. Philip Mirowski, “On the Origins (at Chicago) of Some Species of Neoliberal Evolutionary Economics,” in Building Chicago Economics: New Perspectives on the History of America’s Most
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Powerful Economics Program, ed. Robert Van Horn, Philip Mirowski, and Thomas A. Stapleford (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 262. 56. Lewis, “The Emergence of ‘Emergence,’ ” 120. 57. F. A. Hayek, “The Theory of
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Complexity, ed. Elias L. Khalil and Kenneth E. Boulding (New York: Routledge, 1996), 79. 81. Hayek, The Political Order of a Free People, 132. 82. Philip Mirowski, Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 18. 83. Franz Böhm, “Rule of Law in a Market Economy,” in
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Graf, Eric Helleiner, Ryan Jeffery, David Kool, Leigh Claire La Berge, Boaz Levin, Molly Lynch, Owen Lyons, Ian Malcolm, James Mark, Jamie Martin, Malgorzata Mazurek, Philip Mirowski, Craig Murphy, Molly Nolan, Subodh Patil, Dieter Plehwe, Ryan Quintana, Glenda Sluga, and Heidi Tworek. Love also to my family, especially my Baba, Stella Deloris
The Marginal Revolutionaries: How Austrian Economists Fought the War of Ideas
by Janek Wasserman · 23 Sep 2019 · 470pp · 130,269 words
to the Post-War Japanese Miracle. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013. Mill, John Stuart. Principles of Political Economy. 7th ed. London: Longman, Green, 1909. Mirowski, Philip. More Heat than Light: Economics as Social Physics. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989. ———. Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived
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the Financial Meltdown. London: Verso, 2013. Mirowski, Philip, and Dieter Plehwe, eds. The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. Mises, Ludwig von
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. Van Horn, Robert. “Jacob Viner’s Critique of Chicago Neoliberalism.” In Van Horn, Mirowski, and Stapleford, Building Chicago Economics, 279–300. Van Horn, Robert, and Philip Mirowski. “The Rise of the Chicago School of Economics and the Birth of Neoliberalism.” In Mirowski and Plehwe, Road from Mont Pèlerin, 139–79. Van Horn
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, Robert, Philip Mirowski, and Thomas Stapleford, eds. Building Chicago Economics. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Van Sickle, John. Review of Die Gemeinwirtschaft by Ludwig von Mises. AER
Strategy: A History
by Lawrence Freedman · 31 Oct 2013 · 1,073pp · 314,528 words
, which it did with a remarkable sense of mission and confidence. The new universe that was explored at RAND was simulated as much as observed. Philip Mirowski describes what he calls the “Cyborg sciences.” These reflected the new interactions between men and machines. They broke down the distinctions between nature and society
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about not only strategy but also economics because it demonstrated the possibilities opened up by powerful computing capabilities for modeling all forms of human activity. Philip Mirowski has written of the “Cyborg sciences,” which developed along with computing, reflecting novel interactions between men and machines. They broke down the distinctions between nature
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Ghamari-Tabrizi, “Simulating the Unthinkable: Gaming Future War in the 1950s and 1960s,” Social Studies of Science 30, no. 2 (April 2000): 169, 170. 11. Philip Mirowski, Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes Cyborg Science (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 12–17. 12. Hedley Bull, The Control of the Arms Race (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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. Duncan Luce and Howard Raiffa, Games and Decisions; Introduction and Critical Survey (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1957). 20. Poundstone, Prisoner’s Dilemma, 8. 21. Philip Mirowski, “Mid-Century Cyborg Agonistes: Economics Meets Operations Research,” Social Studies of Science 29 (1999): 694. 22. John McDonald, Strategy in Poker, Business & War (New York
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deliberate versus emergent strategies, 554–555 emphasis on storytelling by, 566 on importance of community, 555–556 on strategic planning, 499–500, 504, 550, 560 Mirowski, Philip, 148, 514–515, 600 Mitchell, Billy, 125 Modern Corporation and Private Property (Berle and Means), 490 Modern Strategy (Gray), 238 Mondale, Walter, 448, 450 Montecuccoli
Vulture Capitalism: Corporate Crimes, Backdoor Bailouts, and the Death of Freedom
by Grace Blakeley · 11 Mar 2024 · 371pp · 137,268 words
about “shrinking” the state, it was about “seizing and then retasking” it.110 Many of the founders of neoliberalism would have admitted as much. As Philip Mirowski points out, the maxim of the neoliberals could be summed up as “[o]nly a strong state can preserve and enhance a free-market economy
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Definitive Edition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007). 11. John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (New York: Springer, 2018). 12. Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown (London: Verso Books, 2014). 13. Hayek, Road to Serfdom. 14
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. Philip Mirowski and Dieter Plehwe, The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015). 15. William Davies, “The
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Legacy of Thorstein Veblen (NP: ISLET, 2016). 26. Martin Beddeleem, “Recoding Liberalism: Philosophy and Sociology of Science against Planning,” in Quinn Slobodian, Dieter Plehwe, and Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism (London: Verso, 2020). 27. See Geoff Mann, In the Long Run We Are All Dead: Keynesianism, Political Economy, and Revolution
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Away the Ladder: Development Strategy in Historical Perspective (London: Anthem Press, 2021). 35. Quinn Slobodian and Dieter Plehwe, “Introduction” in Quinn Slobodian, Dieter Plehwe and Philip Mirowski, Nine Lives of Neoliberalism (London: Verso, 2020). 36. Ibid. 37. Harvard professor Harvey Cox makes a similar point in his article “The Market as God
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, 158, 159, 247, 260 military-industrial complex (US), 9–10, 23, 25, 191–93, 217–20, 244 Minsky, Hyman, 113, 114 MIO Partners, 54–55 Mirowski, Philip, 36 Mississippi, Cooperation Jackson/Jackson-Kush Plan, 236–37, 247, 251–52, 255 money laundering, 120–21, 156–57 monopoly Amazon and, 75–77, 132
Why We Can't Afford the Rich
by Andrew Sayer · 6 Nov 2014 · 504pp · 143,303 words
many neoliberal politicians dismiss global warming as fiction, it’s hard to believe that they really believe the vast weight of scientific research is mistaken. Philip Mirowski has researched neoliberal think-tanks and argues that – contrary to appearances, particularly their tendency to deny climate change – neoliberals actually have a strategy for dealing
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, I recommend David Harvey’s (2007) A brief history of neoliberalism, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Best of all, especially in relation to the crisis, is Philip Mirowski’s (2013) Never let a serious crisis go to waste, London: Verso. 27 Sayer, A. (2007) ‘Moral economy as critique’, New Political Economy, 12(2
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to anything we call moral merit or deserts’: Hayek, F.A. (1960) The constitution of liberty, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, p 94. 41 Philip Mirowski calls this division between what neoliberals say in private and what they say in public neoliberalism’s ‘double-truth’. Mirowski, P. (2013) Never let a
The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest
by Edward Chancellor · 15 Aug 2022 · 829pp · 187,394 words
their chief’s lead.39 They occupied an echo chamber in which existing beliefs were reinforced and uncomfortable questions ignored. ‘Bernanke’s Fed,’ concludes historian Philip Mirowski, ‘has evaded suffering any consequences for its intellectual incompetence’ in the lead up to the crisis. Instead of being hounded from office, Bernanke was credited
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the subprime crisis. ‘Most economists did not understand the economy’s peculiar path prior to the crisis, and persisted in befuddlement in the aftermath,’ writes Philip Mirowski.4 After the crisis, no intellectual paradigm shift took place. A fixed belief in the veil of money remained firmly in place, a blindfold that
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up distressed securities at bargain prices with subsidized loans. Despite record losses on Wall Street, billions of dollars in bonuses were distributed. The Fed, writes Philip Mirowski, ‘bestowed upon the banks seemingly permanent options to reward executives and shareholders by capping the downside while permitting an unlimited upside’.fn3 After 2008, another
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, Lending and Borrowing in Ancient Athens (Cambridge, 1991). Mills, John, ‘On Credit Cycles and the Origin of Commercial Panics’, Manchester Statistical Society, 11 December 1867. Mirowski, Philip, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown (London, 2013). Mischel, Walter, The Marshmallow Test: Understanding Self-Control and
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regional bubbles.’ (Jonathan McCarthy and Richard W. Peach, ‘Are Home Prices the Next “Bubble”?’ Federal Reserve Bank of New York, December 2004.) 28. Cited by Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown (London, 2013), p. 88. 29. Estimate from Harvard economist Martin Feldstein
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: New Ideas from Sir William Petty to Henry Thornton (Oxford, 2008). 3. Arthur C. Pigou, The Veil of Money [1949] (London, 1962), p. 25. 4. Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown (London, 2013), p. 18. 5. Ben Bernanke, ‘Chairman Bernanke’s Press
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–7 Milken, Michael, 204 Mill, John Stuart, 179–80, 188 Miller, Adolph, 92 Mills, John, 74 Minsky, Hyman, 138–9, 143, 232‡, 233, 284, 285 Mirowski, Philip, 119, 131, 206, 206* Mischel, Walter, 29 Mises, Ludwig von, 29–30, 31*, 32, 95 Mississippi bubble: and advances in globalization, 263; buybacks during, 53
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further 4 percentage points of the total household wealth, taking their total share to nearly a fifth of total household assets (World Inequality Database). fn3 Philip Mirowski claims that ‘the Fed was also bringing in politically favored individuals and hedge funds to buy derivatives and other securitized debt with government money and
Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work
by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams · 1 Oct 2015 · 357pp · 95,986 words
was capable of insinuating itself into every political issue and every fibre of political common sense. It overthrew the hegemonic ideas of its time. As Philip Mirowski writes, their strategic genius was to appreciate that it is not enough to dangle a utopian vision just beyond reach as eventual motivation for political
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?’, Guardian, 21 January 2014. 91.Greg Sharzer, No Local: Why Small-Scale Alternatives Won’t Change the World (Winchester: Zero Books, 2012), p. 3. 92.Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown (London: Verso, 2013), p. 326. 93.Zibechi, ‘Latin America Today’. 94
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process of being rewritten, and this chapter relies heavily on the pioneers of this research, including the unpublished work of Alex Andrews. See, for example, Philip Mirowski and Dieter Plehwe, eds, The Road from Mont Pelerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009
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); Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste: How Neoliberalism Survived the Financial Meltdown (London: Verso, 2013); Peck, Constructions of Neoliberal Reason; Daniel Stedman Jones,
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, Paul, 92, 118 media, 2, 7–8, 31, 36, 52, 58, 60, 63, 67, 88, 118, 125–6, 129, 133–5, 163–5, 176, 182 Mirowski, Philip, 66 modernity, 23, 63, 69–85, 86, 131, 176, 181 modernisation, 23, 60, 63, 137, 174 Mont Pelerin Society, 54, 86, 134, 164, 166 MPS
Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present
by Jeff Madrick · 11 Jun 2012 · 840pp · 202,245 words
much as in their position,” he wrote to the British economist Lionel Robbins, referring in particular to Friedman. As economic historians Rob Van Horn and Philip Mirowski make clear, claims that the “neo-liberalism” of Friedman was a pure outgrowth of the highly respected Chicago pioneers like Knight and Simons were misleading
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. 11 JONES WAS THE REASON: Ibid., p. 33. 12 IT EMPHASIZED, AS SIMONS PUT IT: Henry Simons private papers, cited by Rob Van Horn and Philip Mirowski, “The Rise of the Chicago School of Economics and the Birth of Neoliberalism,” in The Road from Mont Pelerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought
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Collective, ed. Philip Mirowski and Dieter Plehwe (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2009), p. 145. 13 THIS APPROACH IN A TIME: H. L. Miller, “On the Chicago School of
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.4 minerals industry, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1 minimum wage, 2.1, 2.2, 8.1, 8.2 Minsky, Hyman Mints, Lloyd Mirowski, Philip Mises, Ludwig von Mitchell, Andrea Mitchell, Charles Moe, Richard Mohamed, Mahathir Mondale, Walter, 9.1, 11.1 monetarism, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 7
Artificial Whiteness
by Yarden Katz
figure 2.1). While AI drew great media attention several decades earlier, in the mid-1980s and early 1990s, interest then dwindled. In 2002 historian Philip Mirowski wrote that “AI has apparently lost the knack of blinding people with science, at least for now.”1 It was only around 2013 that usage
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Grandin, Kissinger’s Shadow: The Long Reach of America’s Most Controversial Statesman (New York: Holt, 2015), 226. 2. IN THE SERVICE OF CAPITAL 1. Philip Mirowski, Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 535. 2. I use “entrepreneur” here to refer to the neoliberal notion of
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Becomes Google AI,” Forbes, May 9, 2018. 18. Alain Supiot, The Spirit of Philadelphia: Social Justice vs. the Total Market (New York: Verso, 2012). 19. Philip Mirowski, Science-Mart: Privatizing American Science (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011), 25. 20. For an analysis of the interest of major platform companies (such as
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Facebook) in scientific research, see Philip Mirowski, “The Future(s) of Open Science,” Social Studies of Science 48, no. 2 (2018): 171–203. 21. Kurt Wagner, “Mark Zuckerberg’s Philanthropy Organization Is
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Bing Search Ads,” in Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web Companion, 2017, 689–98. 41. Philip Mirowski, Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002); Philip Mirowski, Science-Mart: Privatizing American Science (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2011). 42. Hayek writes, “A pre-formation of an
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the Attack on Iraq. London: Pluto Press, 2004. Mills, Charles W. Blackness Visible: Essays on Philosophy and Race. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2015. Mirowski, Philip. “The Future(s) of Open Science.” Social Studies of Science 48, no. 2 (2018): 171–203. ________. Machine Dreams: Economics Becomes a Cyborg Science. Cambridge: Cambridge
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and Drones, 57 Millennium Challenge (war game), 215 Mills, Charles W., 162 Minsky, Marvin, 13, 23–25, 97, 202, 238n11, 249n89, 270n55 Moskovitz, Dustin, 260n39 Mirowski, Philip, 66 Mirzoeff, Nicholas, 260n36, 300n2 miscegenation, 159 MIT: Progressions, 262n50 MIT Technology Review, 60, 73, 255n14, 268n47 Moby-Dick, 19, 225, 232 modernity and postmodernity
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