POL201Y1 Lecture Notes - Washington Consensus, Classical Liberalism, United States House Committee On Oversight And Government Reform
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Movie will likely be on the midterm, and the final exam: the neo- liberal global order, neo- liberalism as a strategy of development, the difference between left liberalism, right liberalism and neo-liberalism. How to secure freedom: classical liberals: believe that freedom is a pre-existing condition, people are naturally free the danger in government interference. Modern liberals: freedom is not pre-existing, it is something that needs to be produced. Modern liberals support racial, ethnic, tolerance- they endorse the idea that the obligation of the state is to produce freedom classical liberal = right liberalism the limiting of the state. Modern liberalism= left liberalism- the state has to be bigger because it has a job to produce freedom through equality. Modern liberals do not believe that freedom is the natural way of life, it has to be facilitate by the government. He advances the theory that individuals could structure moral and economic life without direction of the state.
