On the unexpected origins of neoliberalism. We talk to Quinn Slobodian, author of Globalists, about how neoliberals look back to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the League of Nations. Why does neoliberalism talk about freedom, but promote order? Is neoliberalism about more or less state - or is it about what kind of state?
Plus why the genuine neoliberals didn’t care about the Cold War and how Murray Rothbard laid the ground for Trump.
Readings:
Globalists, Quinn Slobodian
Neoliberalism’s World Order, Adam Tooze
Why I am not a conservative, F.A. von Hayek
The EU is a betrayal of Europe’s exceptionalism, Douglas Carswell

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