Some scholars argue the term neoliberalism has become analytically useless.

Evidence

For the claim that neoliberalism has been made to signify so many different things that it is largely useless, see Taylor C. Boas and Jordan Gans-Morse, “Neoliberalism: From New Liberal Philosophy to Anti-Liberal Slogan,” Studies in Comparative International Development 44.2 (2009), pp. 137–61. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 444

Categorization

• XREF: A named opponent to Brown’s own tight definitional project — useful for sharpening the contested-concept discussion. — connects to: The term neoliberalism has become too vague to serve as a precise analytical framework. — Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media: How Wall Street…, 68; Neoliberalism lacks a stable meaning or historically specific constituency — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 17; Disputes over the word neoliberalism signaled real disagreement over its content — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 294 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• The term neoliberalism has become too vague to serve as a precise analytical framework. #corroborates (0.97) — Andrew deWaard, Derivative Media, 68
• Neoliberalism’s contested definition does not make the term analytically useless #contradicts (0.92) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 15
• Neoliberalism lacks a stable meaning or historically specific constituency #corroborates (0.90) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 17
• Disputes over the word neoliberalism signaled real disagreement over its content #corroborates (0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 294