George Louis Beer Prize Winner Wallace K. Ferguson Prize Finalist A Margi nal Revolution Book of the Year “A groundbreaking contribution…Intellectual history at its best.” —Stephen Wertheim, Foreign Affairs Neoliberals hate the state. Or do they? In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalis m, Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Em pire to the creation of the World Trade Organization to show that neoliberalism emerged less to shrink government and abolish regulations than to redeploy them at a global level. It was a project that changed the world, but was also undermi ned time and again by the relentless change and social injustice that accompanie d it. “Slobodian’s lucidly written intellectual history traces the ideas of a g roup of Western thinkers who sought to create, against a backdrop of anarchy, gl obally applicable economic rules. Their attempt, it turns out, succeeded all too well.” —Pankaj Mishra, Bloomberg Opinion “Fascinating, innovative…Slobodia n has underlined the profound conservatism of the first generation of neoliberal s and their fundamental hostility to democracy.” —Adam Tooze, Dissent “The definitive history of neoliberalism as a political project.” — Boston Review