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Mutant Capitalism

How the dystopian visions of the nativist right are in keeping with a long tradition of neoliberal ideology.

by Quinn Slobodian via HNN on April 15, 2025
The Method in the Far Right’s Madness

How today’s far right manages to combine the call for economic freedom with pseudoscience about natural hierarchies of race and IQ.

by Quinn Slobodian, Bartolomeo Sala via Jacobin on April 13, 2025
Free Markets and Fixed Natures

How neoliberals fell in love with “human nature”—the glue that still unites the divergent factions of the new right.

by Quinn Slobodian via Boston Review on April 9, 2025
Globalism, Sovereignty, and Resistance

Quinn Slobodian and Jennifer Mittelstadt discuss their research on the meanings of “globalism” and “sovereignty” throughout history.

by Jennifer Mittelstadt, Quinn Slobodian via History & Political Economy Project on November 18, 2024
The Wonderful Death of a State

For market radicals and neo-Confederates, secession is the path to a world that’s socially divided but economically integrated—separate but global.

by Quinn Slobodian via The Baffler on April 4, 2023
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

Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism

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Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right

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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

The Surprising Origins and Politics of Equality

Should equality, instead of another political ideal, should be at the center of our politics?

by Samuel Moyn via The Nation on August 27, 2024

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 Milanović 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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