George Louis Beer Prize WinnerWallace K Ferguson Prize FinalistA Marginal Revolution Book of the Year A groundbreaking contribution Intellectual history at its best Stephen Wertheim Foreign AffairsNeoliberals 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
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674244849
Idioma: Inglés
Número de páginas: 400
Tiempo de lectura:
8h 16m
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 07/04/2020
Año de edición: 2020
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Quinn Slobodian
Quinn Slobodian es profesor de Historia de las Ideas en el Wellesley College y autor, entre otros, del aclamado Globalistas, traducido a nueve idiomas. Colabora frecuentemente en varios medios de comunicación, entre ellos Journal of Global History, American Historical Review y Journal of Contemporary History, y en temas de política actual enThe Guardian, New Statesman, The New York Times, Foreign Policy, Dissent y The Nation. La investigación de Slobodian ha contado con el apoyo de la National Endowment for the Humanities, el American Council of Learned Societies, la Volkswagen Foundation y la Andrew Mellon Foundation. Actualmente vive en Cambridge, Massachusetts.