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• What Is “Neoliberalism” Anyway?
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  Jeffrey A. Tucker | Wednesday, May 17, 2017

  The term “neoliberalism” is being flung around everywhere these days, usually with a haughty sense of “everyone knows what this is.” But do we really? You may think you know, but there’s very little agreement among everyone else. But look closely at the origin of the term: it has a precise meaning. It is not liberty as we want to know it. 

   

• We Don’t Need Neoliberalism—We Already Have Liberalism
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  Ryan McMaken | Tuesday, January 29, 2019

  Global “neoliberal” organizations like the EU and the World Bank depend either on tax revenues or on government-granted monopolies. They rely on various types of government meddling, manipulation, and coercion to accomplish their missions.

  This stands in stark contrast to everything liberals have stood for.

• Neoliberalism Was Never about Free Markets
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  Richard M. Ebeling | Friday, October 13, 2017

  Neoliberalism was not born as an attempt to restore unbridled capitalism, but as an idea to introduce a wide network of regulatory and redistributive programs that would politically salvage of some of the essential elements of a competitive market order.

• Neoliberalism: Making a Boogeyman Out of a Buzzword
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  Max Borders | Friday, June 26, 2015
  Progressives are trying to pin corporatism on free-marketeers, but it’s the mixed economy that ends up in the hands of the powerful.
• Neoliberalism: the Left’s Eternal Boogeyman
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  Corey Iacono | Friday, May 13, 2016

  Critics of “neoliberalism” don’t so much misread Hayek and Friedman as not bother reading them at all.

• What Francis Fukuyama Gets Wrong about Neoliberalism
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  Richard Fulmer | Tuesday, June 14, 2022

  Francis Fukuyama is widely considered one of America’s foremost thinkers.

  But when it comes to his grasp of economics and of economic history, there is room for improvement. 

• Actually, “Neoliberalism” Is Awesome
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  Scott Sumner | Tuesday, April 12, 2016

  The past two decades have been by far the best two decades in human history, and that’s what really matters.

   

• Harvard Professor Calls Out FEE in a New Book about Capitalism. Here’s What She Gets Wrong
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  Patrick Carroll | Friday, November 17, 2023

  Published earlier this year, ‘The Big Myth’ takes direct aim at libertarianism, and in particular the radical laissez-faire economic policy it counsels. It also mentions FEE’s influence in the late twentieth century—disparagingly, of course.

  Here is our response to an excerpt of the book published in The Harvard Gazette.

• Progressive Media’s Appalling Failure on Greece and Venezuela
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  Scott Sumner | Monday, June 13, 2016

  Neoliberalism did not ruin Venezuela or Greece, but you’d never learn that reading many progressive publications.

• Is Free Market Capitalism Bad Economics?
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  Corey Iacono | Tuesday, November 21, 2017

  Perhaps neoliberals do need to engage in a little introspection and be more open to the idea that free markets aren’t perfect and can even lead to calamity, but any honest examination of the evidence strongly suggests that the movement towards free markets has produced meaningful and beneficial results across the world.