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Mind explaining "neoliberal?" Define liberal in this context and what is it in NAFTA et al that make it neoliberal?
I've hardly invented the term "neoliberal", if that's what you're implying.
It is commonly used by economists, political activists and the mass media to describe the recent (the past 25 or 30 years) set of national and international economic policies that seek to secure the reign of the so-called "free market" by calling for business domination of all social affairs with little, if any, countervailing force. While neoliberal economic policy advocates (global) social austerity measures as a way of providing an ample low-wage labor force, it doesn't necessarily advocate "small" government as it seeks to bring government apparatuses (the military, legal structures, etc.) under the control of the corporate order. Thus the "neo" in "neoliberal" is not simply a chronological referent, but an ideological one as well particularly in its articulation of a "positive" role for the state (though many neoliberals wouldn't actually admit this) in the organization of the global economy.