Neoliberalism was heavily influenced by and sympathetic to libertarianism, not a phenomenon in opposition to it. It differs in that minimization of the state was not necessarily its objective. Sometimes colonization of new domains by market logics require new government infrastructures. 1/

For example, finance of education by Federal loans as “investment in human capital” was a neoliberal but not libertarian idea. Both Clinton and Obama’s health care proposals involved expanding government to bring market logicks into those spheres. Neoliberal, not libertarian, proposals. /fin