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neoclassical liberalism en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (uncountable) Capitalist ideology which stresses the importance of deregulation and private ownership over the means of production.
   • Jardine says the neoclassical liberalism of the postindustrial economy contained two major postulates: a return to laissez-faire economics and a revival of Protestant morality to counteract the growing moral permissiveness. 2013, Arthur W. Hunt with Anthony Selvaggio, chapter 5, in Surviving Technopolis: Essays on Finding Balance in Our New Man-Made Environments, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 68:
2. (uncountable) Capitalist ideology that focuses on the compatibility of support for civil liberties and free markets on the one hand and a concern for social justice or the worst-off’s well-being on the other.
3. (uncountable) Synonym of neoliberalism.

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bleeding-heart libertarianism · neoliberalism · Arizona School liberalism