Guest speaker: Professor Quinn Slobodian

Neoliberals hate the state, or do they? We are delighted to welcome Professor Quinn Slobodian for a talk on his new book "Globalists: The End of an Empire and the Creation of Neoliberalism." From the ashes of the Habsburg Empire to the creation of the World Trade Organization, Slobodian offers the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, following a group of thinkers 'to show that neoliberalism emerged less to shrink government and abolish regulations than to redeploy them at a global level' (Harvard University Press).

Quinn Slobodian is ACLS Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellow at the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History at Harvard University for 2017-8 and associate professor of history at Wellesley College. His most recent book, forthcoming with Harvard University Press in 2018, is titled Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism. He is also co-editing a volume on neoliberalism with Dieter Plehwe and Philip Mirowski.