Aren't Neoliberals Able to Cultivate Such a Utopian Disposition Towards Markets?

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Neo liberals are willing to be realists when it comes to boundaries of the nation states for ordinary people. But they don't apply their absolute principles to people as they do to goods and capital, he says. He is on the record being directly critical of enoch powell. The creation of a multicultural europe brings home this problem of a clash between different cultural styles in a way that new liberals now are forced to confront.

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