3 ms·

Huh? The Economist is THE neoliberal globalist journal. What a bizarre characterization. Did you mean ZeroHedge or something?

by pram 5y ago

darkteflon 5y ago
“Classically-liberal” is a much fairer description of the Economist than “neoliberal”.
dboreham 5y ago
I think you may have mis-parsed the parent comment. They're saying exactly what you are saying.
ch4s3 5y ago
You can't be a neoliberal if you were publishing from the same viewpoint in 1843, they're classically liberal and helped define what that even means.
- tablespoon 5y ago
  > You can't be a neoliberal if you were publishing from the same viewpoint in 1843, they're classically liberal and helped define what that even means. That seems like a distinction without a difference. Isn't neoliberalism just liberalism, but willfully ignoring all or most of the problems that led to it going out of fashion the first time? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism: > Neoliberalism, or neo-liberalism,[1] is a term used to describe the 20th-century resurgence of 19th-century ideas associated with free-market capitalism. Also: > In 1938 at the Colloque Walter Lippmann, the term neoliberalism was proposed ... ultimately chosen to be used to describe a certain set of economic beliefs.... According to attendees Louis Rougier and Friedrich Hayek, the competition of neoliberalism would establish an elite structure of successful individuals that would assume power in society, with these elites replacing the existing representative democracy acting on the behalf of the majority. Oof.
  - ch4s3 5y ago
    My point is that they aren't revivalists, but an organization that has always had a classically liberal perspective. They also aren't Hayekians, anti New Deal, or particularly animated by a need to shrink states to their bare minimum. You also aren't going to find the Economist fiercely beating the drum of privatizing the public sphere which is a key focus of neo-liberalism. You'll also find them criticizing things like shock therapy.

Huh? The Economist is THE neoliberal globalist journal. What a bizarre characterization. Did you mean ZeroHedge or something?

by pram 5y ago

Huh? The Economist is THE neoliberal globalist journal. What a bizarre characterization. Did you mean ZeroHedge or something?

darkteflon 5y ago

“Classically-liberal” is a much fairer description of the Economist than “neoliberal”.

dboreham 5y ago

I think you may have mis-parsed the parent comment. They're saying exactly what you are saying.

ch4s3 5y ago

You can't be a neoliberal if you were publishing from the same viewpoint in 1843, they're classically liberal and helped define what that even means.

tablespoon 5y ago
> You can't be a neoliberal if you were publishing from the same viewpoint in 1843, they're classically liberal and helped define what that even means. That seems like a distinction without a difference. Isn't neoliberalism just liberalism, but willfully ignoring all or most of the problems that led to it going out of fashion the first time? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism: > Neoliberalism, or neo-liberalism,[1] is a term used to describe the 20th-century resurgence of 19th-century ideas associated with free-market capitalism. Also: > In 1938 at the Colloque Walter Lippmann, the term neoliberalism was proposed ... ultimately chosen to be used to describe a certain set of economic beliefs.... According to attendees Louis Rougier and Friedrich Hayek, the competition of neoliberalism would establish an elite structure of successful individuals that would assume power in society, with these elites replacing the existing representative democracy acting on the behalf of the majority. Oof.
- ch4s3 5y ago
  My point is that they aren't revivalists, but an organization that has always had a classically liberal perspective. They also aren't Hayekians, anti New Deal, or particularly animated by a need to shrink states to their bare minimum. You also aren't going to find the Economist fiercely beating the drum of privatizing the public sphere which is a key focus of neo-liberalism. You'll also find them criticizing things like shock therapy.