"Neoliberalism" is a slippery word, perhaps most prominently deployed as an insult against the target of a Medium.com thinkpiece. This scholarly collection takes a new and well-evidenced line of reasoning, that the forms of hybrid governance called 'neoliberal' extend rather than inhibit State power, and the origins of neoliberalism as practice stretch back to the Early Cold War, rather than the 80s Reagan/Thatcher revolution.

The chapters on theory, aside from the first one, are a little floppy for my tastes. Yes, the State maintains the right of decision and arbitration on property, yes the State is a 'specific form of arrangements' (almost impossible to parody). The empirical chapters, on biological warfare and the biotech revolution under Nixon, sovereign wealth funds, and private military contractors and the "securitization" of foreign policy provide interesting looks on pressing issues, and how the State can create private markets and actors to achieve their ends.