Ok, today is the day I'm going to do it. I'm going to finally look up "neoliberal", because everything I know about "neoliberal" comes from Kim Stanley Robinson's "Ministry for the Future" (not to be mistaken for "El ministerio del tiempo")
1. In accordance with, or subscribing to, neoliberalism.
Hmm. The tautology is strong with this one
2. Having or showing belief in the need for economic growth in addition to traditional liberalistic values.
Ah, now it's perfectly clear ...
I personally understand "neoliberalism" as the ideology that tries to actively remove all institutional barriers for businesses to make profits, including taxes.
To say it with the devil en flesh, Margaret Thatcher: "There is no such thing like society".
Everyone thinks it's obvious what a term means and that *obviously* anyone who uses that term differently must be dumb or evil.
The dictionary we carry in our head is not necessarily the dictionary that is in someone else's head. But no one tells us that.
As Winston Churchill or Oscar Wilde or some random person once said,
"America and Britain are two countries separated by a common language."
But the same thing could be said about almost any 2 people who share the same language.
#Economics
#Neoliberalism
#JamesBuchanan
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You are quite right in your assesment, Mina, though you focus on the 1 of 3 #neoliberal
strands that is the pillar of #Reagonomics and #Trumpism, #Buchanan's #VirginiaSchool:
"...unlike even the most property-friendly founders #AlexanderHamilton and #JamesMadison, 👉#Buchanan wanted a private governing elite of corporate power that was wholly released from public accountability.👈" 1)
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