The Anonymity of the Market

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The ideal kind of outcome for a social system is one in which we are coerced by means beyond our apprehension. The anonymity of the system was essential for him, and he understood that. Freedom on the individual level is ornamental, the same way that state sovereignty is,. He says it's important to not see this as a cynical instrumentalization.

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