[D66] Pan-economisme

[A.O.]

Als sommigen in de economie het rijk der vrijheid dan wel
noodzakelijkheid zien en via de dichotomie politiek-economie alles
willen bestieren dan ben ik toch wel wel als post-trot met Agamben eens,
het economische paradigma is volkomen 'unredeemable', zonder
bevrijdingsbelofte. Neoliberalisme is pan-economisme.
Hoe verleidelijk is de gedachte alle economen en politici die zich
baseren op het economische paradigma de eeuwige hel toe te wensen...
(De econoom is dan ook de hoer van de politiek)


"I have argued elsewhere that Agamben’s genealogy of oikonomia can be
read as an indirect critique of neoliberalism,33 but no such deductive
work is required in the case of Leshem, who published his findings under
the title The Origins of Neoliberalism. As it turns out, however, the
book engages only briefly with neoliberalism, and as in Agamben’s
parallel study, the direct genealogical connections with modernity can
be characterized as more suggestive than definitive. The key
justification behind the title is the claim that Leshem has uncovered in
“the Christianity of Late Antiquity . . . the transformative moment” in
the process by which economy comes to overpower all other aspects of
human life (3; italics in original), a process that has culminated in
the pan-economism of the neoliberal order."
--p.59 Neoliberalism's demons