> A lot of people describe themselves as libertarians of various types, or even as classical liberals, but I've never met a person calling herself a neoliberal.
Which says a lot more about who you do (and don't) know than it says about anything else.
Thanks for the references, these are good articles, and I am happy to see that I was wrong and there are in fact some defenders of the term. Still, it is very predominantly seen in a critical context -- quite unlike, for example, "libertarianism" or "economic liberalism" or "classical liberalism".
But, even here it does not look well-defined at all: at best, authors simply classify specific policies as "neoliberal".
No, its not. Its used by defenders of neoliberalism quite a bit.
http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2010/Sumnerneolibera...
https://cambridgedevelopmentstudies.wordpress.com/2011/04/12...
http://www.themoneyillusion.com/?p=31603
http://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?a=94...
> A lot of people describe themselves as libertarians of various types, or even as classical liberals, but I've never met a person calling herself a neoliberal.
Which says a lot more about who you do (and don't) know than it says about anything else.