Book Review: Hayek’s Bastards: Race, gold, IQ, and the capitalism of the far right by Quinn Slobodian

The new book by Quinn Slobodian continues his impressive research program of uncovering the intellectual roots of political and ideological currents of the contemporary neoliberal right. He first did this in The Globalists, which detailed a largely untold story of how in particular Austrian economics ideas shaped postwar international organizations like the GATT, WTO, and the IMF. In his Crack-up Capitalism he showed how tech-inspired optimism shaped futuristic libertarian visions of markets and communities beyond the state. In this new book, he uncovers unexpected relationships between the (populist) far-right and neoliberalism. But what exactly the nature of these relationships is, remains ambiguous.

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