From Medieval to Liberal Man: Cycles and Crises of Liberalism – Recent Authoritarian Tendencies
Abstract
This paper starts gathering historical evidence related to eventual regulation/
deregulation cycles in the two first decades of the XXth and XXIth centuries. Following, an
analysis on the passageway of the Medieval Man to a Liberal Man in Europe, and on the
economic and political features of the Classical Liberalism in its path to Neoliberalism. Later
on, a search for answers to the recent disarrangements and authoritarian trends in the world.
Many critics were made to Neoliberalism as well as speculations on the future of this system.
JEL Classification: B12; E12; N23; P16.
Keywords: Classical political economy neoliberalism conservativeness political cycles authoritarian trends