The Rise of Democracy and the Rise of National Self Determination

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In the book i want you to explain this idea that's at the core of the geneva school, which is the proposed division between economic governments and the governmants of other matters. Why did they think that the economy needed to be protected from national governments? And how did they think t a that could happen? So in the story i'm telling, the twentieth century is really marked by two events in particular. The first is the end of empire; then associated with that is the generalization of universal suffrage or one person, one vote democracy. That principle doesn't always, but can run directly against the notion of global economic interdependence.

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