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From the abstract: "...after three decades of scholarship that have mapped neoliberalism...". Luckily we have HN crypto-bros telling those academics they did't
by imjonse 3y ago
From the abstract: "...after three decades of scholarship that have mapped neoliberalism...".
Luckily we have HN crypto-bros telling those academics they did't get their terminology right.
- LastTrain 3y agoKnow your target. Crypto bros are the ones that like to throw that term around carelessly. It’s us old grey beards who object to the term’s abuse.
- _0ffh 3y agoI haven't known a time in my life, where not one or another acquaintance of mine liked to rant about the evils of "neoliberalism". Every single one of them had a different idea of what the term means. I've even heard an interview with a person who seems to equate it to a certain brand of neo-marxism. It's a mess, and always has been. I'm having a hard time taking any of this seriously anymore for a while now. Edit/p.s. I suppose we can conclude that what defines "neoliberalism" is that it is not well liked by those who like to use the term, everything else about it seems to be in perpetual flux.
- imjonse 3y agoyour acquaintances may want to check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism it's not some meme term invented last year on tiktok that we're fine to be ignorant about.
- _0ffh 3y agoI myself know very well what the technical meaning of the term is, no thanks to your unasked for condescension. My remark was clearly about it's meaning in common usage (in the last few decades btw, not just "last year"). Also, even within the social sciences the word is clearly ill-defined and thus of limited value. The situation might be better if the socialist propagandists had been as keen on explaining the concept as they have clearly been on maligning the term. Which is kind of informative in itself, as it was meant to be a compromise solution between laissez faire and socialism, which led to some more principled classical liberals to distance themselves from the idea.
- amadeuspagel 3y agoWhy read the HN comment section if you aren't interested in the views of non-academics?
- imjonse 3y agoBecause unlike what I replied to, many comments here are insightful enough. I am definitely not interested in views of non-experts who have very firm beliefs.
- Levitz 3y agoWords belong to the people. It might be the case that in an academic context a word is used for precision but that it conveys the wrong message in common parlance. It's also kinda ironic to call out references to terminology while using "crypto-bro" in such a meaningless way.
- imjonse 3y agoI half-jokingly said crypto-bro after seeing an ethereum related project on the commenters' profile.