Neoliberal capitalism establishes entrepreneurship, competition, and soft regulation as the panacea to societal problems. Combining pragmatic sociology and critical discourse analysis, we deconstruct how the Muhammad Yunus’ justification work relies on criticism to make these market-based solutions both legitimate and necessary. We highlight four types of justification work¬: authorizing, problematizing, imagining, and solutioning. We describe their related discursive strategies, framings of reality, and impacts on criticism. We thus refreshe the notion of test, revealing the power effects in justification work, and highlighting the mechanism of complex domination in neoliberal capitalism.
