i’m glad to concede that “neoliberalism” has become kind of a bogeyman, often used as an ill-defined target of free-floating opprobrium. when i write, i try to define what i mean when i use the term, e.g. www.interfluidity.com/v2/7333.html 1/

here i was intervening in a debate that had already adopted neoliberalism, and it seemed fine to go with in a you-know-what-they-mean way. 2/

laissez faire is maybe more specific. i think neoliberalism actually connotes something a bit stronger than that, colonization by market mechanisms of traditionally nonmarket spheres. /fin