Mario,
I understand your statement about Action and Tocqueville. How about 
Hayek's endorsment of the Mont Pelerin Society?
I think the key point here is to define "neoliberalism" for economists. 
Do we have a unique notion/connotation of the term within the 
discipline? Are we intending "neoliberalism" as a doctrine according to 
which the State should adopt a free-market policy (that is the opposite 
of laissez faire), because it would either be more rational or more 
naturally ordered?

Giandomenica Becchio


On 31.12.2013 17:10, Mario Rizzo wrote:
> I look forward to read the Thorsen and Lie paper. But one thing I 
> know
> for sure: No one who is in the classical liberal tradition
> (Action-Tocqueville-Hayek-Mises)  would ever call him or herself a
> neo-liberal.
>
> Mario Rizzo.
>
> On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 4:03 AM, ALAIN ALCOUFFE  wrote:
>
>> in their paper What is Neoliberalism?
>>  http://folk.uio.no/daget/What%20is%20Neo-Liberalism%2010-11-06.pdf
>> [2]
>> Dag Einar Thorsen and Amund Lie deal with : Neoliberalism:
>> conceptual history and definitions
>>
>> Nicholas Theocarakis a écrit :
>>
>>> Google Philip Mirowski Postface Defining Neoliberalism.
>>> There is an EJ article translated from the French by Charles Gide
>>> on Maffeo Pantaleoni. OED mentions this article as the first
>>> instance of neoliberalism and neoliberal in English.
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>>> On 30 Δεκ 2013, at 1:40 μ.μ., Robert Leeson wrote:
>>>>
>>>> In his JPE review of Die Konkurrenz Untersuchungen über die
>>>> Ordnungsprinzipien und Entwicklungstendenzen der
>>>> Kapitalistischen Verkehrswirtschaft by Georg Halm, Arthur R.
>>>> Burns (1930, 490) states that Halm is a member of the
>>>> "neo-liberal school of Professor Adolf Weber, of Munich". I
>>>> would be grateful for references to earlier uses of the term.
>>>>
>>>> RL
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