George Louis Beer Prize Winner Wallace K. Ferguson Prize Finalist A Marginal Revolution Book of the Year "A groundbreaking contribution...Intellectual history at its best."-Stephen Wertheim, Foreign Affairs
Neoliberals hate the state. Or do they? In the first
intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows a
group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire to the creation
of the World Trade Organization to show that neoliberalism emerged less
to shrink government and abolish regulations than to redeploy them at a
global level.
It was a project that changed the world, but was
also undermined time and again by the relentless change and social
injustice that accompanied it. "Slobodian's lucidly written
intellectual history traces the ideas of a group of Western thinkers who
sought to create, against a backdrop of anarchy, globally applicable
economic rules. Their attempt, it turns out, succeeded all too
well."-Pankaj Mishra, Bloomberg Opinion"Fascinating,
innovative...Slobodian has underlined the profound conservatism of the
first generation of neoliberals and their fundamental hostility to
democracy."-Adam Tooze, Dissent"The definitive history of neoliberalism
as a political project."-Boston Review
Globalists : The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism - Quinn Slobodian
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