Summary
Quinn Slobodian: Globalists: the end of the age of empire and the birth of neoliberalism
In Globalists Quinn Slobodian analyzes how a small group of intellectuals from Central Europe laid the foundations for institutions such as the European Union or the World Trade Organization. In addition to opposing fascism and communism, the group held that it was necessary to limit the power of the democratic public, because people as citizens and people as workers represent a deadly threat to the supreme goal of neoliberals, a global economy integrated by the free flow of capital.
In contrast to standard interpretations that glorify neoliberals as the main supporters of the market, and opposed to governments and states, Slobodian claims and supports places from their works that they are mostly neoliberal at the global level. embraced governance, thereby neutralizing political power at the level of states, so that democratic governments cannot obstruct the security and mobility of property.
Through a story that stretches from the end of the Habsburg Empire to the creation of the World Trade Organization, Globalistsshow how a network of those who described themselves as neoliberals envisioned not a self-regulating world of economics, but a world limited by rules and institutions.
Book Globalists. The end of the age of empire and the birth of neoliberalism has so far been translated into nine languages. In 2019, it received the award of the American Historical Association for the best book in the field of European international history.
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