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Quinn Slobodian

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Colossus Wears Tweed

A number of recent books blame the rise of neoliberalism on economists. But the evidence suggests it is still capital that rules.

by Quinn Slobodian via Dissent on December 1, 2020
The White Man, Unburdened

How Charles Murray stopped worrying and learned to love racism.

by Stuart Schrader, Quinn Slobodian via The Baffler on July 4, 2018

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Neoliberalism’s World Order

Neoliberalism set out not to demolish the state, but to create an international order strong enough to override democracy in the service of private property.

by Adam Tooze via Dissent on July 1, 2018

The Market Police

In neoliberalism, state power is needed to enforce market relations, but the site of that power must be hidden from politics.

by J. W. Mason via Boston Review on June 1, 2018

Worlds Apart

How neoliberalism shapes the global economy and limits the power of democracies.

by Patrick Iber via The New Republic on April 23, 2018

Adam Smith (left), George Stigler (center), Milton Friedman (right), Hyde Park streetscape in the background.

The Localist

Why did Chicago become the headquarters of free market fundamentalism? Adam Smith offers a clue.

by Jonathan Levy via Boston Review on June 28, 2023

A woman wearing a winter coat and a mask walks outside the headquarters of the International Monetary Fund, Washington, D.C., January 2022.

How the System Was Rigged

The global economic order and the myth of sovereignty.

by Branko Milanovic via Foreign Affairs on June 21, 2022

Fast food with the seal of the president on the containers.

How the State Created Fast Food

Because of consistent government intervention in the industry, we might call fast food the quintessential cuisine of global capitalism.

by Alex Park via Current Affairs on January 25, 2022

1912 political cartoon of the Aldrich Plan depicted as an octopus with tentacles on a bank, a factory, and a farm while spitting coins into the NYSC.

A Popular History of the Fed

On Populist programs and democratic central banking.

by Noam Maggor, Anton Jäger via Phenomenal World on October 1, 2020

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