Globalists

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.