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Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism Kindle Edition

by Quinn Slobodian (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.5 out of 5 stars 187 ratings

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

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[A] magnificent history of neoliberalism...Offers a rich, lucid, and illuminating genealogy of neoliberal theory and practice, from its inception after World War I to the formation of the World Trade Organization."

-- "Commonweal"

"Narrator Joe Barrett has no trouble interpreting the political abstractions and complex sentences that fill this esoteric audiobook. Delivered with his educated enunciation and measured pacing, his narration conveys intellectual confidence...The narratives of behind-the-scenes struggles between social, democratic, and economic interests are riveting. With Barrett's grasp of these dynamics and his connection with his listeners, he makes the theoretical debates and political intrigue come to life while helping the author shed light on current-day controversies."

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Narrator Joe Barrett has no trouble interpreting the political abstractions and complex sentences that fill this esoteric audiobook.-- "AudioFile"

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Quinn Slobodian is associate professor of history at Wellesley College.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07BF46YN2
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harvard University Press
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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 16, 2018
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 9.4 MB
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 386 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0674919792
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Quinn Slobodian is professor of international history at Boston University and the author or editor of seven books translated into ten languages. He contributes regularly to the New York Times, Guardian, and New York Review of Books. In 2024, Prospect UK named him one of the World’s 25 Top Thinkers.

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  • PB
    5.0 out of 5 stars Detailed history of the Geneva School and its legacy.
    Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2024
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    Quinn Slobodian does an excellent job highlighting the evolution of neoliberal thought and practice from its inception. Globalists challenges the tendency to look at neoliberalism as a process of 'unfettering' or 'liberating' markets from political constraints. Instead, Slobodian, whose arguments center the Geneva School theorists and their followers rather than critics of neoliberal thought, makes the case that encasement is a more apt metaphor. Instead, Slobodian tells readers that in order to understand the neoliberal project, it is more useful to examine the qualitative ('what kind of state') rather than the quantitative ('how much state').
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  • Eric Johnson
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating dissection of the history of neoliberalism
    Reviewed in the United States on May 25, 2024
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    This book plunges into the deep foundations of what is now known as neoliberalism and sheds revelatory light on an important concept that has been influencing western culture and society for decades, for the most part without conscious awareness by the general public. Surprisingly the roots are quite different from what I had picked up from other books.
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  • Alohasentinel
    4.0 out of 5 stars A short history of neoliberalism in world exonomics
    Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2018
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    This was a very informative history of the birth and maturity of the neoliberal movement in economic thought. It was also interesting to see the evolution of Hyak’s thought process and influences, although the book was much more than this.
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  • Jesper Doepping
    5.0 out of 5 stars A concise definition of neoliberalism and its historical influence
    Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2018
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    Anybody interested in global trade, business, human rights or democracy today should read this book.

    The book follow the Austrians from the beginning in the Habsburgischer empire to the beginning rebellion against the WTO. However, most importantly it follows the thinking and the thoughts behind the building of a global empire of capitalism with free trade, capital and rights. All the way to the new “human right” to trade. It narrows down what neoliberal thought really consist of and indirectly make a differentiation to the neoclassical economic tradition.

    What I found most interesting is the turn from economics to law - and the conceptual distinctions between the genes, tradition, reason, which are translated into a quest for a rational and reason based protection of dominium (the rule of property) against the overreach of imperium (the rule of states/people). This distinction speaks directly to the issues that EU is currently facing.
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  • Edoardo Angeloni
    5.0 out of 5 stars A very interesting book about the modern society.
    Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2019
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    The author explicates how with Hayek and von Mises the economics of the central Europe has had a development, such that we can consider it a true entry in the modernity. The structures which the new-liberalism introduced were truly important for allowing the social progress. So some politicians have had the way for following particular models, which also today are considered with interest by many experts. The result is that the globalization has given to the several countries the same possibility . This competence has a strong value, because the author has a clear style and an efficient vision of the reality.
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  • Michael Trebilcock
    5.0 out of 5 stars Illuminating intellectual history
    Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2019
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    Wonderfully researched and written, and highly illuminating reconstruction of the intellectual contributions and influence of the so-called Geneva school of neo-liberal globalists in the inter-war and post war years.
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  • Donald Davidson’s Swampman
    5.0 out of 5 stars Serious Academic Work on History of Neoliberalism
    Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2020
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    Challenges conventional historical thinking on the “birth” of Neoliberalism, Slobodian creates an incredibly informative narrative. One of the best books on Neoliberalism that I’ve read.
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  • Suzanne M. Wheat
    5.0 out of 5 stars Essential Read
    Reviewed in the United States on April 24, 2020
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    if you are interested in inequality and the Capitalist predator state.
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  • Pawel Dilmot
    5.0 out of 5 stars Un nuovo paradigma
    Reviewed in Italy on August 5, 2018
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    Il testo, molto ben costruito e con ricchezza di citazioni, tenta di formulare un nuovo paradigma nell'analisi della nascita del Neoliberismo. Il fenomeno è rimasto segnato dalle analisi che ne fece Karl Polanyi ma ora Slobodian affronta la storia e le idee di questo movimento lasciando molto spazio all'influenza della Mont Pelerin Society e all'apporto dei giuristi e degli economisti europei. Leggeremo molte cose su Von Hayek, sul suo maestro Von Mises ma anche su Ropke e meno sugli astri americani del movimento.
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  • Patrick Slobodian
    5.0 out of 5 stars Connecting the dots
    Reviewed in Canada on February 9, 2019
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    A provocative book connecting Mises, Hayek et al through the Geneva School to the MPS and on to the WTO. Meticulously researched. I can hardly wait for his next book. But I must also confess to personal bias!
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  • Fezz
    5.0 out of 5 stars a comprehensive review
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 26, 2023
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    fantastically researched and clearly presented.
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  • Carlos de la Canal
    5.0 out of 5 stars Texto fundamental para comprender el liberalismo
    Reviewed in Mexico on January 26, 2020
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    Extraordinario esfuerzo por relatar el devenir del liberalismo
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  • Incubus
    5.0 out of 5 stars Revealing and very useful
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 9, 2018
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    This is exceptionally good. The historical depth of the neoliberal movement is often misunderstood and underestimated. Slobodian's revealing analysis of its origins in the declining Habsburg Empire and its subsequent abandonment of analytical macroeconomics in favour of market deification furnishes us with a clearer idea of what we're up against. These people thought the organised proletariat was a 'disease'. A must-read.
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