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Neoliberalism: History, Politics & Measurement

Neoliberalism is a political and economic ideology that advocates for free-market capitalism, and that became dominant in policy-making from the late 20th century onward. The term has multiple, competing definitions, and is most often used pejoratively. In scholarly use, the term is often left undefined or used to describe a multitude of phenomena.…

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Neoliberalism topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Politics and Measurement as prominent areas in the source structure around Neoliberalism.

Related topics
608
Source areas
8
Connected nodes
616
Extracted relationships
444
Concept neighborhoods
133
Bridge connections
616

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 208 topics
Criticism · 177 topics
Post–World War II neoliberal currents · 96 topics
Terminology · 66 topics
Traditions · 32 topics
Political policy aspects · 16 topics
Early history · 10 topics
Online lectures · 3 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Terminology

Early history

Post–World War II neoliberal currents

Traditions

Political policy aspects

Criticism

Online lectures

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Neoliberalism connects Entity context

The extracted context around Neoliberalism shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Neoliberalism → Anthropocene, April, Barnard Center, Bill Moyers, Boston Review, Bryan Evans, Capitalism, Center, Closing, COVID, Department's History, Development, Died, Economic, Economic Thought, Encyclopædia Britannica, February, Gap, Gérard Duménil, Has Covid Another extracted example is Neoliberalism → Academia, Accuracy, Agriculture, American, American Enterprise Institute, Arthur Schlesinger, Atari Democrats, Bill Bradley, Bill Clinton, Brookings Institution, Bruce Babbitt, Business Roundtable, Cato Institute, Chamber, Charles Peters, Citizens, Commerce, Council, David Harvey, Departments. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Neoliberalism

Top relations

related to External links · 48
Neoliberalism → Anthropocene, April, Barnard Center, Bill Moyers, Boston Review, Bryan Evans, Capitalism, Center, Closing, COVID, Department's History, Development, Died, Economic, Economic Thought, Encyclopædia Britannica, February, Gap, Gérard Duménil, Has Covid
related to United States · 47
Neoliberalism → Academia, Accuracy, Agriculture, American, American Enterprise Institute, Arthur Schlesinger, Atari Democrats, Bill Bradley, Bill Clinton, Brookings Institution, Bruce Babbitt, Business Roundtable, Cato Institute, Chamber, Charles Peters, Citizens, Commerce, Council, David Harvey, Departments
related to Origins · 34
Neoliberalism → According, Alexander Rüstow, Alfred Müller-Armack, Although Hayek, An, As, Charles Gide, Chicago Boys, Chile, Colloque Walter Lippmann, English, English-language, French, Friedrich Hayek, German, In, It, Italian, Louis Rougier, Ludwig
related to Imperialism · 30
Neoliberalism → As, Blakeley, Chief Economist, Cold War, Communist Party, Economist Joseph Stiglitz, For, Geographer David Harvey, He, Historian Bradley, IMF, Indonesia, Indonesian Army, Indonesians, International Monetary Fund, International Relations, Politics, Professor, Ruth, Sheffield
related to Walter Lippmann Colloquium · 27
Neoliberalism → Alexander Rüstow, An Inquiry, August, Centre International, Colloquium, French, Friedrich Hayek, Good Society, Great Depression, Hayek, Libéralisme, Lippmann, Lippmann's, Louis Rougier, Ludwig, Meeting, Mises, Paris, Principles, Rénovation
related to Criticism · 26
Neoliberalism → Amartya Sen, ATTAC, Belgian, Billy Bragg, British, Catholic Church Pope Francis, Chris Hedges, Cornel West, David Harvey, George Monbiot, Great Recession, Ha-Joon Chang, Joseph Stiglitz, Michael Hudson, Naomi Klein, Noam Chomsky, Notable, Paul Verhaeghe, Richard, Robert Pollin
related to Inequality · 19
Neoliberalism → CEPR, Critics, David Howell, Dean Baker, Economic, Even, IMF, In, In Venezuela, International Monetary Fund, Mamadou Diallo, OECD, Policy Research's, Sweden, The, The Center, United States, Venezuelan, While
related to Online lectures · 18
Neoliberalism → An Accounting, April, Berlin Wall Was, Chicago, Communism, Crisis Should Be, David Harvey, Democracy Now, Massachusetts Amherst, Naomi Klein, Neo-Liberalism, Neoliberalism What Fall, Noam Chomsky, October, The Neoliberal City, University, University Channel, Wall St
related to Mass incarceration · 16
Neoliberalism → According, Both, By, Campbell, Dartmouth College, David Harvey, He, In, John, Marxist, Several, Sociologist Loïc Wacquant, United States, US, Wacquant, Wacquant's
related to Chicago School · 15
Neoliberalism → Although, Austrian, Chicago, Friedrich Hayek, Gary Becker, George Stigler, In, Keynesianism, Mark Skousen, Milton Friedman, Ronald Coase, The, The Chicago, University, Vienna

Important terminology

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Important terminology

neoliberal economic policies market political state economy social government states new society united reforms scholars trade policy term inequality growth

Neoliberalism relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 444 structured relationships around Neoliberalism. Examples in this analysis include Neoliberalism → is a → political and economic ideology that advocates for free-market capitalism and Neoliberalism → is a → political philosophy that seeks to. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Neoliberalismis apolitical and economic ideology that advocates for free-market capitalism0.90text
Neoliberalismis apolitical philosophy that seeks to0.90text
Neoliberalismis alegitimate term0.90text
Neoliberalismis asupport of free trade0.90text
Neoliberalismis asystem that socializes costs and privatizes profits0.90text
Margaret Thatcherinstance ofalong with politicians and policy-makers0.80text
Ronald Reaganinstance ofalong with politicians and policy-makers0.80text
and Alan Greenspaninstance ofalong with politicians and policy-makers0.80text
Walter Euckeninstance ofMost scholars in the 1950s and 1960s understood neoliberalism as referring to the social market economy and its principal economic theorists0.80text
Wilhelm Röpkeinstance ofMost scholars in the 1950s and 1960s understood neoliberalism as referring to the social market economy and its principal economic theorists0.80text
Alexander Rüstowinstance ofMost scholars in the 1950s and 1960s understood neoliberalism as referring to the social market economy and its principal economic theorists0.80text
and Alfred Müller-Armackinstance ofMost scholars in the 1950s and 1960s understood neoliberalism as referring to the social market economy and its principal economic theorists0.80text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Neoliberalism bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Political, Economic and States. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Neoliberalism
    • Political
    • Economic
    • States
    • Market
    • United
    • Argues
    • Policies
    • State
    • Social
    • New
    • Free
    • Term
  • neoliberalism
    • Political
    • Economic
    • States
    • Market
    • United
    • Argues
    • Policies
    • State
    • Social
    • New
    • Free
    • Term
  • economic ideology
    • Neoliberal
    • Policies
    • Political
    • Neoliberalism
    • Policy
    • Social
    • States
    • Market
    • Freedom
    • United
    • Growth
    • Inequality
  • free-market capitalism
    • Capitalism
    • Free-market
    • Argues
    • Political
    • Reforms
    • United
    • Neoliberalism
    • Term
    • States
    • Inequality
    • Economic
    • Free
  • economic liberalization
    • Neoliberal
    • Policies
    • Political
    • Neoliberalism
    • Policy
    • Social
    • States
    • Market
    • Freedom
    • United
    • Growth
    • Inequality
  • deregulation
    • Privatization
    • Trade
    • Labor
    • Free
    • Including
    • Government
    • State
    • Policy
    • Free-market
    • Often
    • Policies
    • Argues
  • labor market flexibilization
    • Social
    • Economy
    • Free
    • Neoliberalism
    • Trade
    • Society
    • Term
    • Political
    • State
    • States
    • Global
    • Inequality
  • economic globalization
    • Neoliberal
    • Policies
    • Political
    • Neoliberalism
    • Policy
    • Social
    • States
    • Market
    • Freedom
    • United
    • Growth
    • Inequality

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Neoliberalism, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Neoliberalism with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
NeoliberalismOverview · splits 408 ⟂ 209
NeoliberalismCriticism · splits 439 ⟂ 178
NeoliberalismPost–World War II neoliberal currents · splits 520 ⟂ 97
NeoliberalismTerminology · splits 550 ⟂ 67
NeoliberalismTraditions · splits 584 ⟂ 33
NeoliberalismPolitical policy aspects · splits 600 ⟂ 17
NeoliberalismEarly history · splits 606 ⟂ 11
NeoliberalismOnline lectures · splits 613 ⟂ 4

Map overview Semantic statistics

Neoliberalism

Nodes617
Edges616
Triples444
Avg. degree2
Density0.003241
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Neoliberalism to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Politics & Measurement, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Neoliberalism · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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