A Brief History of Neoliberalism

Comme nous l’avons vu, depuis les années 1930, les néolibéraux de l’école de Genève pensaient que l’empire pouvait prendre fin dès lors que les droits de la propriété privée – ou ce que je qualifie, d’après Hayek, de droits du xenos – étaient protégés partout dans le monde et que la libre circulation des capitaux et des marchandises disciplinait le

But just as we see with the most successful entrepreneurs, the state could regain its effectiveness by sealing an alliance with the most potent party of the day, the multitude. Building this alliance starts by providing the multitude with what they want: fairness and quality at scale. And the problem is that instead of improving, the quality of pub

Determined to unshackle market forces from the heavy hand of the state and the millstone of “tax and spend,” the classes that led this bloc aimed to liberalize and globalize the capitalist economy. What that meant, in reality, was financialization: dismantling barriers to, and protections from, the free movement of capital; deregulating banking and

The progressive-neoliberal bloc combined an expropriative, plutocratic economic program with a liberal-meritocratic politics of recognition.