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title = "what is neoliberalism"
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summary = "in short, everything is a market and the experts should decide the best policies to help the market"
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date = "2018-03-14T08:10:00-00:00"
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source = "https://mastodon.social/@trwnh/99681239150233207"
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> What is #neoliberalism? Is it a set defined thing or a term just like liberalism that could mean lots of different things to different people?
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kinda both? liberalism and neoliberalism have academic meanings, but get used differently by different people
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ie neoliberalism is just largely a return to liberalism; the idea that govt's role is to help business, that markets can be used as a force for good https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism
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maybe best exemplified by thatcher, reagan, greenspan, clinton; the support of "free trade" agreements like NAFTA and TPP or organizations like the IMF or WTO; opposition to people like ralph nader in the 1970s; concepts like "the marketplace of ideas" or "soft power"; in short, everything is a market and the experts should decide the best policies to help the market
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Neoliberalism seems like a big tent, but that's really only because it's ideologically sparse and lacks substance. Most of the Western world holds a neoliberal economic and domestic policy, and a neoconservative foreign policy.
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