Quinn Slobodian: What is Neoliberalism? | Doomscroll

why should you still be beholden to ideas of one person one vote democracy as the kind of default I want to spend a moment on this topic of monarchy that's good because the time Horizons of a monarch supposedly are longer than the time Horizons of a CEO let alone a four-year elected Congress person David fredman is literally the author of anarco capitalism the Machinery of freedom is his most important book but he also has written a couple fantasy novels if you want to check out salamander then I encourage you to LARPing as well literally cosplaying yeah I mean not just that he was one of the kind of pioneers of the lar um cosplay movement in the United States setting up an annual function in Northern Pennsylvania so that this would this would be really funny if these people weren't in charge of the world welcome to Doom scroll I'm your host Joshua citarella my guest is Quinn sodian a professor of international history at Boston University his books which have been translated into 10 languages include globalis the end of Empire and the birth of NE liberalism crack up capitalism Market radicals and the dream of a world without democracy and his forthcoming H ex bastards race gold IQ and the capitalism of the farri he has been an associate fellow at Chatham House and held residential fellowships at Harvard and the Free University of Berlin he is the co-director of the history and political economy project and is on the board of editors of the American historical review Prospect UK named him one of the world's 25 top thinkers in 2024 he is considered by many to be the world's foremost historian on the subject of neoliberalism neoliberalism is probably the most misused and abused word in today's political discourse yeah if you look on Twitter you will find things like neoliberalism is printing money neoliberalism is austerity neoliberalism is also somehow gay people in the military but then it's the social conservatism of Reagan how should we approach this term what does neoliberalism actually mean yeah well I I think it the problem with is it gets used and thrown around in such promiscuous ways and I tend to think of it being used basically in three main ways one way is to kind of describe a period of History so often ...