Neoliberalism, accomplished and ongoing

Every modern era is punctuated by political-economic crisis, and neoliberalism is no exception. Born of recessions, monetary turbulence, political unrest, and energy price shocks between the late 1960s and early 1970s, the neoliberal era reached its apogee around the turn of the twenty-first century. It then destabilized - or so some think - with the financial crisis of 2007-8. Whether the situation since signals a ‘post-neoliberal’ phase or neoliberalism’s ‘strange non-death’ remains an open question (Brenner et al. 2010; Crouch 2011; Calhoun and Derlugian 2011; Comaroff 2011; Mirowski 2013). Regardless, there is work to be done.