Just to say - I was present this morning at the launch of the report of the Chakrabarti Inquiry into antisemitism and all forms of racism in the Labour Party. Jeremy spoke well, calmly, with also a touch of humour about the events of the last few days, and fielded questions with authority. So - not really traumatised. (Moral - don't believe everything the Laura Kuenssberg tells you.) The guy is tough.
Oh, and the report is excellent.
Jonathan
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Subject: Re: Translation of neo-liberalism
John, apologies for my prickliness. This wole PLP stunt has just gotten to me. Corbyn seems to be traumatised. And I don't blame him. If these neoliberal twits win, then I will leave the Labour Party. You are right to mention Boas & Gans-Morse in this context. It is true that the term is used pejoritively. But given what it refers to, in the right context, it should be so used. But as Jones says, it should not be used as a catch-all. And I don't think critical commentators use the term in that way. I am thinking now of Bill Black, the criminologist and MMTer at UMKC (University of Missouri, Kansas City - one of the best econ programs in the US).
Here is Black on what is going on in the US, referring to Brexit and what is happening to Labour.
http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2016/06/terrible-cost-democrats-nation-ignoring-tom-franks-warnings.html
John Whittington <[log in to unmask]> wrote :
> At 09:12 30/06/2016 +0000, L Brownstein wrote:
> >John, it is neither liberal nor new.
>
> Indeed - that was the point of my nearly rhetorical question!
>
> >But that is the term that now applies to this particular
> >constellation of policy objectives.
>
> So it seems. Needless to say, I was aware, from the context in which
> it is usually used, of roughly what the word is used to mean - it was
> the word itself that I was really asking about! I was interested in
> the initial comment about 'current usage' in the Wikipedia article:
>
> " According to Boas and Gans-Morse, neoliberalism is commonly used as
> a catchphrase and pejorative term, outpacing similar terms such as
> monetarism, neoconservatism, the Washington Consensus and "market reform"
> in much scholarly writing. Jones, a historian of the concept, says the
> term "is too often used as a catch-all shorthand for the horrors
> associated with globalization and recurring financial crises" "
>
> Kind Regards,
>
>
> John
>
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