Week 9. (1) Neo-liberalism and Classical Liberalism (2) Libertarianism, both Right and Left.
Raymond Plant, “The Nature of the Neo-liberal State and the Rule of Law,” “Freedom, Coercion and the Law,” The Neo-liberal State (Cambridge UP, 2012): 5-27, 64-83
Andrew Gamble, “Economic Libertarianism,” Oxford Handbook of Political Ideologies, pp. 405-422
DEADLINE TO SUBMIT THREE RESPONSE PAPERS.
So you'd like an overview of the main ideas of classical liberalism...
Check out Stephen Davies's short lecture on the subject.
So you'd like to see 21st-century classical liberal outlook...
Check out The Economist magazine (here predicting, and hoping, that Britain's youth are becoming classical liberals)
So you'd like a history of how neo-liberal ideas spread from the 1930s until Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan used them to smash social democracy in the 1980s...
Check out Daniel Stedman Jones, Masters of the Universe: Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics
So you'd like to see the Old and New Testaments of neo-liberalism (note: they do not endorse laissez-faire capitalism)...
Check out F. A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (1944) and F. A. Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty (1960).
So you'd like to learn about the career of the most classical liberal candidate for US President, Barry Goldwater (Hayek was his favorite philosopher)...
Check out Mr. Conservative: Goldwater on Goldwater (2006; HBO). The film discusses how Goldwater was the leading opponent of US Christian fundamentalists.
So you'd like to know which think tanks are the centers for neo-liberalism and classical liberalism...
Check out Liberty Fund (USA), Institute for Humane Studies (USA), Institute for Economic Affairs (UK), and the Centre for Policy Studies (UK).
So you'd like to see a neo-liberal view of how to end racial and ethnic oppression (surprise, surprise, a freer market will do it)...
Check out Thomas Sowell interviewed by William F. Buckley on Firing Line (1981).
Could Sowell be on to something? How the neo-liberalization of Britain by Margaret Thatcher marginalized and pulverized the formerly strong British white nationalists
The Lost Race: History of the National Front (1999; BBC)
So you'd like to explore the think tanks where the neo-liberals and the libertarians make coalitions...
Check out the Cato Institute (more libertarian) and the Foundation for Economic Education (more classical liberal).
So you'd like to see a 21st-century libertarian outlook...
Check out Reason magazine, the U. S. Libertarian Party platform, or this NY Times op-ed by a libertarian woman frustrated that Rand Paul withdrew from the Republican primaries.
So you'd like to know where the right-libertarians hang out (along with some anarcho-capitalists and traditionalist conservatives)...
Check out the Ludwig von Mises Institute or their spin-off, antiwar.com.
So you'd like to see the Old Testament of right libertarianism, with its laissez-faire capitalism and anti-war-ism...
Check out Ludwig von Mises, Human Action (1949)
So you'd like to see left-libertarianism in action ("Free Markets AND Social Justice")...
Check out Bleeding Heart Libertarians and The Alliance for the Libertarian Left.