Neoliberal Globalism and its Gravediggers

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With the outbreak of the pandemic, neoliberal globalism seems to have lost another of its nine lives. What remains of the consensus around global economic governance that seemed so solid from the end of the Berlin Wall until a few years ago? This talk will consider the present fate of the multilateral trade order, the splintering of the self-described neoliberal movement, and the challenges we can expect from attempts to roll out progressive politics to address inequality and climate change from the top down.

Quinn Slobodian is author of the award-winning Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism, which has eight translations published and forthcoming. A frequent contributor to The Guardian, Foreign Policy, Dissent, The Nation, New Statesman, and New York Times, he is Marion Butler MacLean Associate Professor of the History of Ideas at Wellesley College and associate fellow at Chatham House. His next book, Exit Fantasies: The Dream of Capitalism without Democracy will be published by Metropolitan in 2022. Also forthcoming is Market Civilizations: Neoliberals East and South co-edited with Dieter Plehwe in the Near Futures series on Zone Books.

This event is organized in collaboration with CERIUM.