Understanding the current political/economic world — Quinn Slobodian’s Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
Quinn Slobodian’s masterful exegesis, an old term befitting his subject, tells of the Ur group of thinkers who formulated the assumptions and prescriptions of global neoliberalism. This intellectual history tells of their underlying semi-delusional nostalgia for the Austro-Hungarian Empire after World War I when beliefs about the smooth functioning of the old order ignored its … Read more Understanding the current political/economic world — Quinn Slobodian’s Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism