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title = "what is neoliberalism"
summary = "in short, everything is a market and the experts should decide the best policies to help the market"
date = "2018-03-14T08:10:00-00:00"
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?

kinda both? liberalism and neoliberalism have academic meanings, but get used differently by different people

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

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.