Can someone explain neoliberalism please?

Airyfairy12

I have an essay to do on neo liberalism but I dont fully understand what it even means. Can someone please explain it to me, thanks.

Noveight

It's vanilla, strawberry and banana flavoured ice cream all in one block. HB's is nicest. Any other questions fire away, I'm somewhat of an expert.

worded

Noveight wrote: »

It's vanilla, strawberry and banana flavoured ice cream all in one block. HB's is nicest. Any other questions fire away, I'm somewhat of an expert.

Stop confusing the OP !

Isn’t that lemon and not banana as you have said

Junkyard Tom

It's an economic doctrine that espouses that the so-called 'free' market knows best, except when it doesn't, and has to be bailed out by the public, and resuscitated from cardiac arrest by massive jolts of Quantitative Easing (formerly known as 'printing money').

Noveight

worded wrote: »

Stop confusing the OP !

Isn’t that lemon and not banana as you have said

Good point, I've seen both!

dd972

The biggest self-serving scam in human history?

Junkyard Tom

dd972 wrote: »

The biggest self-serving scam in human history?

A economic doctrine that fools the public into acting against their own interests by colluding in the upward distribution of wealth/power into fewer and fewer hands.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exdR6lhN4bk

Stephen15

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism

worded

dd972 wrote: »

The biggest self-serving scam in human history?

How so? Money value is debased and assets value like property rises ?

Buford T. Justice XIX

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

It's an economic doctrine that espouses that the so-called 'free' market knows best, except when it doesn't, and has to be bailed out by the public, and resuscitated from cardiac arrest by massive jolts of Quantitative Easing (formerly known as 'printing money').

I've never had that flavour of ice cream, one of Ben&Jerrys yeah?

Or to answer the OP, pretty much what he said without the ice cream.

worded

Buford T. Justice V wrote: »

I've never had that flavour of ice cream, one of Ben&Jerrys yeah?

Quantity eating Mmmmmm

AllForIt

Airyfairy12 wrote: »

I have an essay to do on neo liberalism but I dont fully understand what it even means. Can someone please explain it to me, thanks.

I can't explain Roscommon no mind neo-liberalism.

Your Face

worded

AllForIt wrote: »

I can't explain Roscommon no mind neo-liberalism.

Indeed, another anonoly

The_Valeyard

AllForIt wrote: »

I can't explain Roscommon no mind neo-liberalism.

Fun fact. The idea for the wasteland in the Fallout Universe came from when game developers had spent a day in Roscommon about 10years ago*



































*this may not be true.

Intothesea

Good question OP Here's a link to a general sum-up of neo-liberal effects in Ireland, from last year (minus 4 days...):

https://www.tasc.ie/blog/2016/06/15/neoliberalism-exposed/

topper75

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

It's an economic doctrine that espouses that the so-called 'free' market knows best, except when it doesn't, and has to be bailed out by the public, and resuscitated from cardiac arrest by massive jolts of Quantitative Easing (formerly known as 'printing money').

Nope. That is EU federalism you are describing. Which is highly dangerous. Though the Irish political establishment have yet to wise up to this.

Neo-liberalism is that the free market knows best, and then when it doesn't, you leave it the hell alone and it fixes itself in time, perhaps involving some painful but well-learned lessons for all concerned.

Like our friend communism, it has arguably never been tried.

bnt

Healthcare in the USA is another example of Neoliberalism. It gets called a free market, but it's not, for multiple reasons. Hospitals and the HMOs behind them operate local monopolies, where there isn't really any choice but to use their services. And even where there is choice, it's not often available to you at the point you need it. If you're having a heart attack and call 911, do you care which ambulance service arrives to take you to which hospital?

There might be a market in secondary healthcare, for elective procedures such as boob jobs, but the insane costs for receiving primary healthcare reflect the fact that there is no real market there. People are having to mortgage their houses to pay for cancer treatment, for example. GoFundMe has a major category for people asking for help with medical bills.

Morpheus

Neo liberalism = the only way to get anything done in this country without kowtowing to a union.