All Is Orwell - Hackdot

Re:All Is Orwell by chalst on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @02:43PM (#27280634)

Orwell wrote that review at pretty much the same time as the Bretton Woods system of international monetary exchange was implemented, which the largest single piece of the Keynesian economic foundations for 25 years of economic growth with a high level of stability and a low level of inequality in the US-centric world.

There were good reasons why Bretton Woods failed in 1970, but the subsequent ascendance of Hayekian neoliberalism doesn't look so good 40 years on.

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Re:All Is Orwell by young_unixer on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @04:37PM (#27282300)

> Hayekian neoliberalism

That very concept is a nonsensical. No Hayekian economist or ideologue calls themselves neoliberal.

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Re:All Is Orwell by pnin on Tuesday May 25, 2021 @05:45PM (#27283121)

Hayek himself used the term "neo-liberal" to describe the "movement" of liberalism to which he belonged [0]. The historian Quinn Slobodian [1] advocates using the term "neoliberal" for the intellectual history surrounding the Mont Pelerin Society. In this context, it is sensible to distinguish between a Hayekian strand and, say, Wilhelm Röpke's version of neoliberalism.

[0] The Freeman, 1952. https://mises.org/library/freeman-july-1952-b

[1] Globalists. The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism.

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Re:All Is Orwell by young_unixer on Thursday May 27, 2021 @07:50PM (#27310061)

Thanks. I didn't know that. My bad.

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