Comment of the Day: : Neoliberalism, Mirowski and Wren_lewis: "I cannot take seriously anyone who[, like Phil Mirowski,] would unironically use a term like 'Neoliberal Thought Collective'...
...nothing about this is coherent. Nobody could seriously say that someone like John Cochrane and Brad DeLong, whose interactions are mainly spending most of their time (online) screaming at each other, are part of the same 'Thought Collective'. Yet this is what we expect out of a term so uselessly broad and under-appreciating of nuance as 'neoliberalism', so as to cover literally everyone from moderate or centre left like Paul Krugman or dare I say even Stiglitz, to the extreme (economic) right like Mises--absolute insanity.
This is actually worse than when people on the far right describe EVERYONE else that disagrees with them as being part of a socialist thought collective, but at least socialism is an actual real tangible thing that people literally self-identify themselves as...
