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A History of Neoliberalism w/ Quinn Slobodian

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Is It Better to Depoliticize Trade Relations Than Free Trade?

Is it more accurate to say that if it's neo liberalism, at least the geneva school, is not about freeing markets, that it is about depoiticizing them? I think it is. The implication there is, what we had before 20 16 was somehow depoliticized trade. Which is a difficult argument to make when you actually follow the history of these things. To claim that they are outside of or above or drained of politics is an hukterism which most people aren't fooled by any more.

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