Neoliberalism

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According to Charlie Peters, who coined the term, neoliberalism is a combination of New Deal social liberalism with skepticism about government bureaucracy.[1]

DictionaryReference.com: neoliberalism - political movement beginning in the 1960s that blends traditional liberal concerns for social justice with an emphasis on economic growth.[2]

Brian Kermath defines neoliberalism as "a political-economic philosophy and set of policies that established development priorities along austere capitalist paths of free trade, market expansion, and privatization, and free of government intervention and regulation."[3]

In Sweden neoliberalism means libertarianism, i.e. classical liberalism.

Elizabeth Martinez and Arnoldo García have a similar definition: neoliberalism is the revival of classical liberalism. They give five defining points:

• the rule of the market
• cutting public expenditure for social services
• deregulation
• privatization
• eliminating the concept of "the public good" or "community"[4]

According to Henry A. Giroux, neoliberalism refers to "the growing commercialization of everyday life, the corporatization of higher education, the dismantling of the welfare state, the militarizing of public space, and the increasing privatization of the public sphere."[5]

According to Paul Treanor, "Neoliberalism is a philosophy in which the existence and operation of a market are valued in themselves, separately from any previous relationship with the production of goods and services, and without any attempt to justify them in terms of their effect on the production of goods and services; and where the operation of a market or market-like structure is seen as an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action, and substituting for all previously existing ethical beliefs."[6]

According to Robert W. McChesney, neoliberalism is "the set of national and international policies that call for business domination of all social affairs with minimal countervailing force."[7] Elsewhere he defines it as "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.[8]pt:neoliberalismo