what is the clear and easy explanation of neoliberism?

Question

i've already checked out wikipedia. thank you very much. However, it is still ?????

Answer 1

there isn't an easy explanation of 'neoliberalism', and judging from the responses so far, nobody here knows either. It has *nothing* to do with the label 'liberal' used in American politics.

http://web.inter.nl.net/users/Paul.Treanor/neoliberalism.html

Answer 2

Neoliberalism has nothing to do with liberalism as we know it in the United States. It is essentially an economic model that is about as far away from socialism as is possible. Look towards Latin America. The reason that leftist candidates are winning today is because neoliberal reforms have devastated their countries. It mandates less government spending on social programs and privitization of everything under the sun. It has become a tool for wealthy countries to extract primary resources from developing countries.

Again...Neoliberalism has nothing to do with political liberalism as we know it in the US and it is not the opposite of neoconservatism. bot are in the same vein to a certain extent.

Clear and Easy definition: Privatization and open markets for wealthy nations to capitalize on.

Answer 3

There isn't a 'neoliberalism' movement that I'm aware of. The state of liberal thought is still where it's been for some time.

Yeah, that's a little ironic, that conservatives - the staid, unimaginative types - have re-imagined thier politics over the last couple of decades, while liberals are still into the same socialist schemes that they first implemented over 70 years ago under FDR. I guess the most recent change to the liberal agenda was the shift from civil rights to multi-culturalism.

Answer 4

too funny Liberals are freaking dumb, they think that neoloiberalism was made to belittle them? Ironical neoliberalism most fits a republican not a Democrat. Democrats would be labeled internationally as socialist. this is the classic definition that has been used for over 100 years.

Neoliberalism refers to an intellectual and political movement that espouses economic liberalism as a means of promoting economic development and securing political liberty. The movement is sometimes described as an effort to revert to the economic policies of 19th century classical liberalism.[1]

Neoliberalism refers to a historically-specific reemergence of economic liberalism's influence among economic scholars and policy-makers during the 1970s through 1990s. In many respects, the term is used to denote a group of neoclassical-influenced economic theories, libertarian political philosophies, and political rhetoric that portrayed government control over the economy as inefficient, corrupt or otherwise undesirable. Neoliberalism is not a unified economic theory or political philosophy -- it is a label denoting an apparent shift in social-scientific and political sentiments that manifested themselves in theories and political platforms supporting a reform of largely centralized postwar economic institutions in favor of decentralized ones. Arguments of this sort gained a great deal of currency after the Stagflation Crisis of the 1970s, the Developing World Debt Crisis of the 1980s (which primarily affected Latin America but was felt elsewhere[2]),and the Soviet Collapse of the early-1990s.

Answer 5

I blame the hijacking of the English language.

Political correctness was just the beginning; convincing people there are certain things that they shouldn't be allowed to say. It has since expanded into thought-crime.

Ultimately it evolved into changing the very definition of words. "Marriage," which has always been between a man and a woman, suddenly meant something completely different. "Immigrant" became synonymous with "illegal alien".

The bastardation of the English language has added another shroud of confusion and ambiguity behind which liberals hide their true ideology. How can people have a civilized debate when they're essentially speaking another language?

Answer 6

A neoliberal is a neocon with a heart.

Answer 7

Insanity

Answer 8

I've never heard of it but I guess it would be the opposite of a neoconservative.

Answer 9

I only understand neoconservatism...nothing else exists for me..

Answer 10

They refer to themselves as Democrats and are basically promoting Socialism. Their own party can't even see it.


Edit: Here on this forum, we fondly refer to them as neolibs. Stick around, and read.