This is a good time to ask what is left of an outlook known to its enemies as neoliberalism and by at least some of its friends as just economic liberalism. One cannot be too careful in choice of wording. For neoliberalism was originally the self-chosen name for a group formed just before the second world war around the US commentator Walter Lippmann and which advocated, among other things, making greater use of market forces in economic policy. It has only more recently acquired pejorative associations.
有一種觀點被反對者稱爲新自由主義,而至少部分支持者稱之爲經濟自由主義,目前正是探討這種觀點前景的好時機。用詞再怎麼謹慎都不爲過。新自由主義最初是二戰前一個以美國評論員沃爾特•李普曼(Walter Lippmann)爲首的團體爲自己選定的名字,它主張在經濟政策中更多地運用市場力量,此外還有一些別的主張。只是最近它變得有些貶義。