It has meant different things to different writers, some practicing neoclassical economics as they understood it, and others studying the history of neoclassical economics.

Since the 1930s neoclassical economics has become more and more complex mathematically, which has enabled modern economists to claim many new theoretical and scientific insights.

This was, indeed, a radical undermining of neoclassical economics as an ideology defending capitalism.

It is important to note that the definition of "neoclassical economics " is not perfectly self-evident.

What is termed "neoclassical economics " was not always the prevailing view of the discipline.