The foundation of neoliberalism’s economic beliefs is a system that promotes growth and nurtures entrepreneurship, while also providing a safety net that shares those gains with everyone.
My bold.
You also link to Vaughan’s post on the rise of the neoliberals, which covers thinkers like Milton Friedman, Fredrich Hayek, and Ludwig Von Mises. My sense is that these thinkers aren’t always or even commonly associated with the passage in bold.
I think there’s been a big debate within neoliberal circles about the usage of this term. I don’t know the details of that, nor what the exact views of different historical thinkers were. But that might not matter enormously for our purposes.
What I do think is important is to specify what meaning of neoliberalism one has in mind when one says that we should cooperate with the neoliberals. And I take it that you mean specifically the Neoliberal Project and associated thinkers. I think that’s a subset of the thinkers that are sometimes or often called “neoliberals” in ordinary discourse.
Well but you start your post with the reference to Vaughan’s post about the rise of the neoliberals, and they were not part of the modern neoliberal project (which is much more recent). That may lead people to interpret you as talking about something wider than the modern neoliberal project in particular.
I think that the term “neoliberalism” is used in a number of different ways in a way that can be confusing.
The post “What Neoliberals Believe” post that you link to says that:
My bold.
You also link to Vaughan’s post on the rise of the neoliberals, which covers thinkers like Milton Friedman, Fredrich Hayek, and Ludwig Von Mises. My sense is that these thinkers aren’t always or even commonly associated with the passage in bold.
I think there’s been a big debate within neoliberal circles about the usage of this term. I don’t know the details of that, nor what the exact views of different historical thinkers were. But that might not matter enormously for our purposes.
What I do think is important is to specify what meaning of neoliberalism one has in mind when one says that we should cooperate with the neoliberals. And I take it that you mean specifically the Neoliberal Project and associated thinkers. I think that’s a subset of the thinkers that are sometimes or often called “neoliberals” in ordinary discourse.
Fair point. Just to clarify, my post is mostly about the NEOLIBERAL PROJECT and not about the neoliberal thinkers.
Well but you start your post with the reference to Vaughan’s post about the rise of the neoliberals, and they were not part of the modern neoliberal project (which is much more recent). That may lead people to interpret you as talking about something wider than the modern neoliberal project in particular.
Fair, I’ll just remove the first sentence. It’s too confusing.
Thanks for pointing that out. Now updated!