Europe's Incomplete Integration

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The main vehicle for the neo liberal project is international agreements on trade and investment. Slabodian argues that the framers of the general agreement on tariffs in trade drew heavily from the self conscious neo liberals of the geneva school. For these thinkers, the most important argument for free movement of goods and especially finance was not their direct material benefits but the limits they imposed on the autonomy of national governments.

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