ABSTRACT
Neoliberalism appeared as a project to which originally nobody paid much attention. It was born out of the efforts of many economists concentrated in this intellectual task. Neoliberalism moved therefore between a worldview, a political project and public policies. Neoliberalism has already been analysed many times in its distinct currents. The combination between social liberalism and neoliberalism is plain to see, in that the former remains attached to the latter, entertaining a complementary relationship for a good while, beyond the pure and simple affirmation of the market, but never denying and especially keeping it as the kernel of social development. Several years passed until neoliberals came to state power, since Keynesianism and the Welfare State, developmentalism and corporatist forms of organizing social policy limited the space in which its doctrines could expand and exercise concrete political drive.
