r/neoliberal was founded and is run by the think tank progressive policy institute

Nearly three years ago, the earliest iteration of the Neoliberal Project came about. It was on a forum where economics students could gather to discuss their field and its policy implications. We called the forum r/neoliberal. We didn’t name it that to make a political statement. Instead, we wanted to poke fun at people who had called us “neoliberals” as a pejorative. But quickly, people began joining our niche forum at a far greater rate than we ever expected. They weren’t joining to discuss econometrics, as we originally intended. People were joining because they desired a place to discuss policymaking online that wasn’t captured by left or right-wing populists. So, knowing we were onto something, we created an organization to house everything we were doing and everything we wanted to do, called the Neoliberal Project.