Poliittinen Talous

For this episode, the podcast is joined by Quinn Slobodian and Timo Miettinen for a conversation on the many faces of neoliberalism. How should one approach the idea of neoliberalism, and what happened to neoliberalism after the 2016 shock of Trump and Brexit? Trump and Brexit are often seen as a backlash against the neoliberal elites and the rule-based global order, but this might be an oversimplification. Instead, we are witnessing the emergence of neoliberalism’s "bastards" in the form political projects that combine free-market ideas with nationalist and even racist tropes. What are the intellectual roots of such peculiar alliances? Moreover, It might be useful to analyse such phenomena as Brexit as signs of inter-elite conflicts and disputes concerning the architecture of the global economy, instead of putting too much emphasis on the disgruntled masses left behind by globalization. Quinn Slobodian is an associate professor of history at Wellesley College. His latest book is called “Globalists: The E