Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism Audiobook (Free)

Neoliberals hate the state. Or perform they? In the 1st intellectual background of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows several thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire towards the creation of the World Trade Organization to show that neoliberalism emerged less to shrink government and abolish rules than to redeploy them at a global level.

Slobodian starts in Austria in the 1920s. Empires had been dissolving and nationalism, socialism, and democratic self-determination threatened the about Globalists: THE FINISH of Empire and the Delivery of Neoliberalism balance from the global capitalist system. In response, Austrian intellectuals needed a new method of organizing the world. But they and their successors in academia and authorities, from such famous economists as Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises to influential but lesser-known figures such as Wilhelm Röpke and Michael Heilperin, didn’t propose a regime of laissez-faire. Rather they utilized areas and global institutions-the League of Nations, the European Court of Justice, the Globe Trade Organization, and international investment law-to insulate the marketplaces against sovereign claims, political modification, and turbulent democratic demands for higher equality and interpersonal justice.

Definately not discarding the regulatory state, neoliberals wanted to funnel it to their grand project of protecting capitalism in a global range. It had been a project, Slobodian shows, that transformed the world, but that was also undermined time and again with the inequality, relentless switch, and cultural injustice that accompanied it.