Talk:Neoliberalism/to do


 * Write a paragraph or two on the Marginal Revolution lineage of neoliberalism and the development of the Austrian School (The Marginal Revolution & Carl Menger -->von Mises-->von Hayek).
 * Quickly discuss the role of the London School of Economics in gestating neoliberalism.
 * The University of Chicago gave right-wing thinkers academic jobs while they were funded by private capitalist organizations. Look up the history of how von Hayek and others were recruited to the University of Chicago and funded handsomely while Keynesianism was still ascendant (around 1940-1980). Include a paragraph about this, clarifying which part of U.S. capital was funding and recruiting these particular gentlemen to the University of Chicago School and for what purpose--including how this served as a pillar of the the U.S. conservative movement after the oil crisis, why Chicago, what happened to bring the neoliberals out of the periphery of economic orthodoxy and into setting economic orthodoxy worldwide. That will give you a strong historical footing and clarity for this article. I'm forgetting where this discussion is at the moment, but you should be able to find this information in pertinent Political Sociology studies. [This information is presented in Mirowski's "The Road to Mount Pelerin", an essential source].
 * Related to above, clarify the relationship between neoliberalism and neoconservatism in the U.S.
 * Use the German "neoliberalism" page for the info to insert a sentence or two on the German group that called itself "Neoliberalismus" (or whatever). This is to establish the historical basis for the term itself.
 * Show that historians of neoliberalism point to the political nature of the neoliberal economic orthodoxy. Describe the differences in (and political-economic conditions of) early political neoliberalism (Thatcher, Reagan, Mitterand, Kohl) and the second-generation neoliberalism (Clinton, Blair, Schroeder, the post-apartheid South Africans) as well as the subsequent hardline regress (Bush, Merkel, Sarkozy). I think you will need someone with something of a Marxist/Gramscian perspective to do this.
 * Clarify the role of Public-Private Partnerships in post-1980 public spending. Neoliberal policies generally encompass resource transfers as investment programmes where the State is smaller but public expenditure is simply reallocated to private contractors.
 * Use the German "neoliberalism" page for the info to insert one clear paragraph on the asymmetrical and disputed use of the term. This would help to understand it better. Also this interesting phenomenon deserves a descrition (For exampel the different use in different fields of sciences such as very frequent use in social sciences and hardly any in economic sciences…