Liberalization in France was quintessentially a state project. That is true of neoliberalism more generally, but never more so than in France. Neoliberalism is simultaneously a response to the crisis of the earlier Fordist growth model, and a response to the failure of classical liberalism; it is the institutional, political, and ideational infrastructure of the matrix of growth models that emerged to supplant Fordism. As such, it is a constructivist project that involves reshaping society to fit that market order. As Cahill and Konings put it, neoliberalism recognizes that a market order “needs to be actively constructed, institutionally and politically.” In this sense, neoliberalism can be understood as a terraforming project, and it is this that makes the state so central.