George Louis Beer Prize Winner Wallace K. -- Boston Review. --Adam Tooze, Dissent The definitive history of Neoliberalism as a political project. --Pankaj Mishra, Bloomberg Opinion Fascinating, innovative...
Slobodian has underlined the profound conservatism of the first generation of neoliberals and their fundamental hostility to democracy.
Their attempt, it turns out, succeeded all too well.
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.
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.
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. --Stephen Wertheim, Foreign Affairs Neoliberals hate the state.
Ferguson Prize Finalist A Marginal Revolution Book of the Year A groundbreaking contribution...
Intellectual history at its best.
George Louis Beer Prize Winner Wallace K
