For a thoughtful take on Quinn Slobodian’s Hayek’s Bastards, read this review in Naked Capitalism. Click here to learn more about the book. Click here to read the full review. An excerpt appears below:

“The Neoliberal turn of late capitalism rules our world. Quinn Slobodian has become the voice of our time in explaining how this has happened and why… Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right completes a perfect triple axel in connecting the dots on how Neoliberals have made their world in which the rest of us live. Perhaps Friedrich Hayek was less scientistic than his bastard intellectual offspring and he may have been the “softer” neoliberal. The differences among Hayek, Milton Friedman, and Ludwig von Mises and the Cato Institution, the Heritage Foundation, the Hoover Institution are not trivial, as is explained throughout Hayek’s Bastards. But their collective outputs are congruent by virtually every measure. Slobodian deals with the three “hards” of the Neoliberal fusionists: (1) hardwired human difference – genetic inheritance as destiny, (2) hard borders – mobile capital, captive people, and (3) hard money – gold for goldbugs with that fetish. Here we will concentrate on the first, their misuse of the science of human variation in pursuance their goals.”