The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism

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The subtitle of the book is a the end of empire and the birth of neo liberalism. The first set of empires that i talk about are indeed the ones that ended after the first world war. And there it's really the european overseas empires in africa, the caribbian and asia that de colonize in the course of the fifties and sixties. There's a way that the decolonization of the overseas european empires after 19 forty five is is the time when this really becomes a kind of breaking point for some of the philosophies that i'm that I'm uncovering here.

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