Dismantling the ‘Neoliberalism’ Straw Man
The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
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Are You Back With Us, Nikos?
In his years in academia, neoliberalism would come up time and again as the main characteristic of the world that we live in. But there were three problems: Neoliberalism was never actually defined; it covered such a vast diversity of phenomena that it's questionable what is its use. And if you have a term that can define from a communist dictator to Margaret Thadse, or it can define the education in the UK, which is supposedly neoliberal, although it's run by the state. Or I've even seen an analysis in the Guardian that says that the film La La Land is neoliberal. Why? Because the protagonists at the end, they choose to follow their dream career rather than
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