George Louis Beer Prize Winner Wallace K. Ferguson Prize Finalist A Marginal Revolution Book of
the Year "A groundbreaking contribution...Intellectual history at its best." -Stephen
Wertheim Foreign Affairs Neoliberals hate the state. Or do they? In the first intellectual
history of neoliberal globalism Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of
the Habsburg Empire to the creation of the World Trade Organization to show that neoliberalism
emerged less to shrink government and abolish regulations than to redeploy them at a global
level. It was a project that changed the world but was also undermined time and again by the
relentless change and social injustice that accompanied it. "Slobodian's lucidly written
intellectual history traces the ideas of a group of Western thinkers who sought to create
against a backdrop of anarchy globally applicable economic rules. Their attempt it turns out
succeeded all too well." -Pankaj Mishra Bloomberg Opinion "Fascinating
innovative...Slobodian has underlined the profound conservatism of the first generation of
neoliberals and their fundamental hostility to democracy." -Adam Tooze Dissent "The
definitive history of neoliberalism as a political project." - Boston Review
