Now up at ProMarket, Quinn Slobodian and Dieter Plehwe present an excerpt from Market Civilizations, which they recently released and edited for Zone’s Near Futures Series. Click here to learn more about the book. Click here to read the full excerpt.
“Much of the historical analysis of neoliberalism, both its ideological roots and its outcomes, has focused on U.S. and Europe, with figures such as Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek taking center stage. Neoliberalism, however, was not uniform in its evolution globally. An excerpt from Market Civilizations: Neoliberals East and South, a new book edited by Quinn Slobodian and Dieter Plehwe, focuses on the way that neoliberalism ‘went local’ in the Global South and Eastern Europe.”