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Neoliberalism 1: What Is It? Where Did It Come From? A Force For Good Or For Evil?

The first article in what will be a lengthy series examining the creation, formulation, expansion and wide acceptance of the Neoliberal doctrine of political philosophy. The series will go on to analyse how it has informed political and economic activity since its take up by the Reagan and Thatcher administrations in the USA and UK respectively.

by Mike Goodman

The term neoliberalism is being bandied around on social media and people are labelled with the handle neoliberal as though the words were synonymous with rock and roll teenagers’ slang in the early 1960s. Does anybody (apart from me) remember “77 Sunset Strip” and the “hip” language of its somewhat larger than life hero? Continue reading “Neoliberalism 1: What Is It? Where Did It Come From? A Force For Good Or For Evil?”