neoliberalism

Because of the natural process of selection, the ideology of social neoliberalism has reached its peak in the last 20 years.

Well, most of us do --- some of us are Lenin's useful idiots (usually about 28% believe in supply side neoliberalism in polls.

Unapologetic neoliberalism, I guess, but some slightly less biased verbiage in NPR would be nice to see.

What brings us all here is the very engine of neoliberalism.

I'm fairly sure people were thinking this in the 1970s, just before neoliberalism came along and destroyed all in its path.

Broadly, through the 2000s, Germany embraced neoliberalism, labour got squeezed, profits shot up, and a surplus accumulated.

The real neoliberalism came along a lot earlier.

The term you are looking for is neoliberalism.

Basic neoliberalism, as taught in econ 101, is just as much a shallow pretext for maintaining existing power structures as Stalinism/Marxism was in the Soviet Union, and its predictive power is close to non-existent.

Associated initially with Reagan and Thatcher, neoliberalism has for the past two decades been the dominant global political economic trend adopted by political parties of the center, much of the traditional left, and the right.

The basic problem is that many, possibly even most, of the rent-extractors adding dead weight to the economy are using their wealth to buy themselves government policies favorable to rent extraction rather than wealth creation and distribution, ie: further neoliberalism.

If basic human social psychology coupled with policies informed by neoliberal market fundamentalism prevent us from addressing climate change, then we will either need to do something about basic human psychology or we will need to do something about neoliberalism.

The feeling of "it's all exhausted" is at least partially a deliberate product of neoliberalism itself.

The 1970s were the time when the meaning of the word "neoliberalism" got warped.

Those of us whose imagination got sucked out of our heads, unfortunately seem incapable of exiting a framework like neoliberalism's "capitalism vs.

One of the most elegant critiques of neoliberalism I've ever heard is but a few words: "the cancellation of the long term".

Neoliberalism is the defining political economic paradigm of our time - it refers to the policies and processes whereby a relative handful of private interests are permitted to control as much as possible of social life in order to maximize their personal profit.

Neoliberalism and individualism are too popular(ly convenient) in this country, so much so that even if you had > a precise [and uniquely substantiated] thesis for [your] comment, we would have found a clipart way to dismiss it using the very perspectives you said are uninformed.