Is There a Crisis in the International Project?

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I think we see right now a real crisis in the very thing i wrote my book about, which is the attempt to create global institutions to protect capitalism from disruptive challenges of democracy. For a while, it was working. People felt symbolically bought into a capitalist economy that was also paying out to them - rising home ownership, a rising per capital income. No one is willing to die for the w t o. And that's actually a big problem. The difficulty of the the international project that i am looking at is makes this problem especially stark, right?

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