期刊名称：Discussion Paper / Département des Sciences Économiques de l'Université Catholique de Louvain
印刷版ISSN：1379-244X
出版年度：2009
卷号：1
出版社：Université catholique de Louvain
摘要：The emergence of the crisis has given a new impetus to the criticism of economic liberalism.
My claim in this paper is that such criticisms will be to no avail as long as the idea of
liberalism remains homogenous. It should rather be considered that several degrees of
liberalism coexist, which I call full liberalism, mitigated liberalism and mitigated antiliberalism
with additional subcategories for the first two categories. In the first part of the
paper, I explain the salient traits of economic liberalism in general. Its justification by Adam
Smith is discussed in part two. In part three, I show how the different forms of liberalism have
emerged with the passing of time.
