Winehole23
08-01-2018, 08:26 AM
This is a review of "Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism" by Quinn Slobodian
As good a nutshell of neoliberalism as I've seen.
Organizing property and production across borders—whether through free trade, protections for foreign investment, currency unions or other devices—does more than limit the power of governments. It also serves, Slobodian writes, “to dissolve the small, discrete collective of mutual identification—the miners or Papuans—in a larger unity.” Hayek spent much of his life searching for “a political model that would undermine the ‘solidarity of interests’ that naturally cohered” among similarly-situated people. Open borders played a critical role here, ensuring that economic interests were never “lastingly identified with the inhabitants of a particular region.”
Lionel Robbins similarly hoped that the extension of democracy and national sovereignty into the economic realm would be “dissolved by an arrangement in which the free flow of capital and goods undercut the ‘communities of interest’ that sustained them.” These communities of interest were always reforming, so “the ongoing depoliticization of the economic was a continual legal struggle, one that required continual innovation in the creation of institutions capable of safeguarding the space of competition.”
Property and its privileges are only safe in a world where the rule of money is accepted as objective, inevitable, and outside the scope of collective decision-making.https://bostonreview.net/class-inequality/j-w-mason-market-police
As good a nutshell of neoliberalism as I've seen.
Organizing property and production across borders—whether through free trade, protections for foreign investment, currency unions or other devices—does more than limit the power of governments. It also serves, Slobodian writes, “to dissolve the small, discrete collective of mutual identification—the miners or Papuans—in a larger unity.” Hayek spent much of his life searching for “a political model that would undermine the ‘solidarity of interests’ that naturally cohered” among similarly-situated people. Open borders played a critical role here, ensuring that economic interests were never “lastingly identified with the inhabitants of a particular region.”
Lionel Robbins similarly hoped that the extension of democracy and national sovereignty into the economic realm would be “dissolved by an arrangement in which the free flow of capital and goods undercut the ‘communities of interest’ that sustained them.” These communities of interest were always reforming, so “the ongoing depoliticization of the economic was a continual legal struggle, one that required continual innovation in the creation of institutions capable of safeguarding the space of competition.”
Property and its privileges are only safe in a world where the rule of money is accepted as objective, inevitable, and outside the scope of collective decision-making.https://bostonreview.net/class-inequality/j-w-mason-market-police