Globalists
The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
Quinn Slobodian
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Globalists
The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
Quinn Slobodian
About This Book
George Louis Beer Prize Winner
Wallace K. Ferguson Prize Finalist
A Marginal Revolution Book of the Year "A groundbreaking contributionâŠIntellectual history at its best."
âStephen 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."
âPankaj Mishra, Bloomberg Opinion "Fascinating, innovativeâŠSlobodian has underlined the profound conservatism of the first generation of neoliberals and their fundamental hostility to democracy."
âAdam Tooze, Dissent "The definitive history of neoliberalism as a political project."
â Boston Review