Does An Average Person Really Know What “Neoliberalism” Even Is?

We assign these big buckets and broad topics to describe what’s going on in modernity, but most of the people we’re trying to explain away don’t even know what the terms mean.

One thing I came across while abroad was this, from Stowe Boyd:

Doing Too Little

Boyd borrows heavily from a Washington Post column from Joseph Stiglitz therein:

Opinion | Time is up for neoliberals

Here’s the “essential” sequence of what Stiglitz wrote:

We’ve now had four decades of the neoliberal “experiment,” beginning with Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. The results are clear. Neoliberalism expanded…