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A History of Neoliberalism w/ Quinn Slobodian

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The Problem of the Complex Systems of the Universe

In his first job as an academic he was working at a laboratory in zurich. He believed that we needed to see humans not as kind of entities that existed in some kind of isolation from the rest of the natural world, but analogously or otherwise. Humans were one of many complex organizing systems within the universe. We could think of the way that humans act with one another the way that we think about the way that iron filings follow a magnet on a piece of paper. The challenge really, of this hiacian form of neoliberalism is how to respect the kind of natural order of the universe and human liberty.

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