What is the accepted term for a European true believer in the power of markets or the ability of technology to lead us out of future resource shortages?
These people have a belief system like all ideologues which is resistant to challenge by contrary information. It is not so much a right vs left position as an underlying belief that their way of life is the best for everyone and that future growth will solve all the lingering problems. How about Panglossians? Policies not Politics ---- Daily Landscape
One of the chief spokesmen is John Ikenberry and his Princeton Project on National Security. Here's a link to his web page:
http://webdb.princeton.edu/dbtoolbox/query.asp?qname=facultydetail&ID=gji3
(I should point out that those of us that think this groups ideas are ridiculous use the term neo-liberal, they don't call themselves that.) Policies not Politics ---- Daily Landscape
Is it? When I think of neo-liberal, I think of Thomas Freidman. Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -Voltaire
Tom Friedman is a huge neo-liberal. Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant
And I'd amend this:
Well in the US the term neo-liberal is starting to mean those who were against Bush and the invasion of Iraq
to:
Well in the US the term neo-liberal is starting to mean those who claim now to have been against Bush and the invasion of Iraq but actually back in 2002 and 2003 were lapdog supporters who excoriated the anti-war left as Chamberlainite appeasers.
In Europe "liberal" derives from the original "laissez-faire liberal". In the US it has something to do with social/civil libertarianism. The reason US libertarians call themselves libertarians (a term which in Europe used to mean left-anarchist) is that "liberal" was taken to include the economic left.
This led to endless fun on the respective wikipedia articles years ago. Those whom the Gods wish to destroy They first make mad. -- Euripides
I don't think there is an accepted term - that is precise enough, at least. Panglossian is not wrong, but more general. Techno-marketistas flits around from time to time in what passes for my brain, but I don't know if it's any use.
