nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20200901-183502-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 200901s2020||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20200901-183502-0 doi eng 342 23 Motarjemi, Yasmine Author aut The Myth of a Neoliberal European Private Law Contribution to an online symposium on Poul F. Kjær (ed), The Law of Political Economy: Transformations in the Function of Law (CUP 2020) Motarjemi, Yasmine Verfassungsblog 2020-09-01 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Most of the contributions to the excellent collection of essays central to this symposium, refer to neoliberalism, in some cases quite frequently. None of them defines the concept, nor does any of them defend neoliberalism. The term is used mostly in a (very) critical sense, sometimes even dismissively. This book is far from unique in this respect. Indeed, the term neoliberalism is almost never used by politicians or scholars in order to vindicate a political ideal. Instead, during the past decade it has become a standard feature of left-wing political discourse, not only in academia and political activism, but also in mainstream left-wing politics. It is a term used by us to refer to them and their abominable politics. funded by the government CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 European Private Law Libertarianism neoliberalism Political Philosophy Utilitarianism Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/the-myth-of-a-neoliberal-european-private-law/ raw object