Neoliberalism definitions:
1: 'it’s the ideology that markets know better than humans' yanisvaroufakis.eu/2018/10/01/is-…
1: 'it’s the ideology that markets know better than humans' yanisvaroufakis.eu/2018/10/01/is-…
2: 'the C20th resurgence of 19th-century ideas associated with laissez-faire economic liberalism. ... As such, NL shares many attributes with other concepts that have contested meanings, including democracy. The definition and usage of the term have changed over time.'
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolibera… [should have started with that one]. Off to look for Lapavitsas and Mason definitions, which I recall to be good.
Here is Paul: [This is top class so quoting in full]. "By neoliberalism I mean the global capitalist system shaped around a core of neoliberal practices and institutions,...."
"...themselves guided by a widespread and spontaneously reproduced ideology, and ruled by an elite which acts in a neoliberal way, whatever conflciting and moderating ideas it holds in its head."
medium.com/mosquito-ridge… Paul also rages that neoliberals contest the existence of neoliberalism.
Digression: can you measure the usefulness or acuity of a term by the extent to which it provokes definitional debate, discourse, refinement and elasticity? This person thinks not:
3. At least an indication you are a neoliberal is that you don't know what one is. N Klein:
4. Paul Mason again: Note 'all aspects' and 'coercive'.
Digression: @EdConwaySky 's rather nice piece on the troubling q of what neoliberalism is, including academic references: news.sky.com/story/sky-view…
Further digression. The economics editor of the FT does not seem to have proferred his own definition of neoliberalism. Not sure how he can hold down his job tbh. @ChrisGiles_
5. A friend of @Noahpinion :
Digression. A friend commented darkly 'we all know what was going on in that locked car.' I realize now that he might have been referring to a discussion about the definition of neoliberalism.
6. "neoliberalism is not reducible to a cogent ideology or a change in economic or social policies, nor is it primarily about a shift in the relationship between the state and the market or between workers and capital in general, or finance in particular..."
"...Instead, neoliberalism is a stage in the development of capitalism underpinned by financialisation." From this: eprints.soas.ac.uk/22614/1/Fine_S… Fine and Saad-Filho
7. @davies_will on definitions and history of 'neoliberalism':
8. @JoMicheII :
@johnmcdonnellMP explaining how neoliberalism is the opposite of Labour Party policy: [but wait for it...]
@ChukaUmunna here says that the previous Labour govt wasn't neoliberal either, defined as "favouring free trade, privatisation, minimal government intervention in business and reduced public expenditure on things like social services." independent.co.uk/voices/labour-…
And here is Slavoj Zizek bucking the trend and arguing that 'Neoliberalism is a myth'. [ie , we don't have neoliberalism]: @SlavojTweezek
Although Naomi Klein sees neoliberalism at work in all the world's current ills. Spoiled for choice with citations here.
Paul clarifies that you can be not neoliberal, yet be inside the EU.
This one preserves the circularity of some of the originals, but saves on time and ink:
