The Problem of the Complex Systems of the Universe

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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.

Featuring Quinn Slobodian on his book Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism. The story of neoliberalism’s Geneva School—including Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, and Wilhelm Röpke—and their vision for a new global order to protect the market from democratic forces in the metropole and across the decolonizing world. An interview from archives first conducted in November 2018. Support The Dig at Patreon.com/TheDig Check out these Haymarket titles: Keywords for Capitalism by John Patrick Leary haymarketbooks.org/books/1886-keywords-for-capitalism Struggle Makes Us Human by Vijay Prashad haymarketbooks.org/books/1869-struggle-makes-us-human