Libertarians distinguish their non-interventionist politics from neoliberal interventionism despite shared economics.
Evidence
“Libertarian” is not the same thing as a neoliberal. Neoliberalism is an economic philosophy, whereas libertarianism is a socio-political philosophy that happens to include support for free-market economics. More importantly, most libertarians are hard-core anti-interventionists! What is called neoliberalism is the same as what most libertarians derisively call “liberventionism.” — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2086
Categorization
- DEFINE: Flags a key intra-market distinction: libertarian anti-interventionism vs neoliberal willingness to use state power.
- XREF: connects to: Friedman avoided the label libertarian to shield himself from anarchist associations — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 443; Neoliberals are constructivist interventionists, not believers in natural markets. — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 22