Talk:Neoliberalism

Inaccuracy
"Much of this deregulation ends up benefiting the parasitic elites and bureaucracy, rather than the poor. (A classic example of this is the kleptocracy of India.)"

This is a red herring argument. Kleptocracy has always existed in India, almost since the country's independence in 1947. In fact, the source of kleptocracy in India is its socialist labor market system where public sector employees have a high degree of job security. They can expect to hold on to their jobs whether they are good at it or not, thus encouraging graft and inefficiency.

Neo-liberal reforms were enacted in India in 1991 and since that time the country's economy has grown and millions of people have been lifted out of poverty. There is no evidence that neo-liberalism as such has contributed to kleptocracy in India. 07:32, 24 September 2015‎ (UTC)

Wrong Mainstream Narrative about Neoliberalism
Hi. I just would like to say that neoliberalism also wants a strong state to create markets. So it's a misrespresentation if someone says that neoliberals want a deregulated state. In fact, they want a super strong state, which creates the market society that they invision. For references read Mirowski, Walpen, Plehwe, and so on. It's false to think that if someone wants more state intervention, that this means "less market", it could also mean "more" markets", but maintained by the state. Don't be mislead by this. If think David Harvey is wrong if he claimes that they want a kind of laissez fair economy. In fact, neoliberals realized, that markets are inherently unstable, and need a strong state to make it work. I remeber a story, in which Von Mises, called members of the Mont Pelerin Society "Socialists", which is kind of true, i a weird way. Greets Some Internet Guy.--84.59.97.253 (talk) 21:43, 5 September 2018 (UTC)
 * I think it depends on what one means by "Strong". It's true neoliberals are not at all anarchists, and that they want a state.  How much state they want depends on the neoliberal.  But on a spectrum of modern policy making in the developed world, they argue for a relatively higher amount of privatization and deregulation, and are usually proud about it.  Neiltyson1fan (talk) 23:05, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

Neoliberalism defined on this page is too full of American thinking.
Neoliberalism is accepted as part of right-wing economic policies in South Korea and Japan. Social liberals close to the center-left, like Bill Clinton, say they have embraced neoliberal elements, but basically, Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan's economic policies are neoliberal. Americans often use 'liberal' in a similar sense to 'progressive', and 'liberal'(social liberal) in a strict academic sense is neither left nor right. Like neoliberalism, 'economic liberal' and 'classical liberal' are generally right-wing ideologies.

Even in Latin America and India, neoliberalism is often associated with right-wing politics, and the center-left accepts neoliberal elements, but it is not viewed as neoliberalism itself.

I think this page should be replaced fundamentally.--Umaru16 (talk) 13:07, 30 August 2021 (UTC)

Greg Mankiw isn't an expert on "left-wing economics" or even respectable
He's a tawdry, mainstream Bush era neoliberal who worked for the Bush administration. Sentence added by GeeJayK attempts to describe leftism with Greg as an authority.

This is not the first time GeeJay flips out Mankiw about politics. If it's the position he's good about coming up with academically scientific ways to put millions of people into poverty through making false aspersions about "money printing", that's not really anything to be proud about. Neiltyson1fan (talk) 02:16, 20 June 2022 (UTC)

IR and economic section could use more citations
Came to an article with almost no citations and added most of them. However there are still many unsourced sentences. It reads accurate, but was likely just 1 guy dumping his brain. As far as IR "neoliberalism", I found two academic papers which seem to talk about what is contained in the IR section, but they are pretty heady Neiltyson1fan (talk) 15:01, 20 June 2022 (UTC)