Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, Iq, and the Capitalism of the Far Right

How neoliberals turned to nature to defend inequality after the end of the Cold War Neoliberals should...
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Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, Iq, and the Capitalism of the Far Right by Slobodian, Quinn

Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, Iq, and the Capitalism of the Far Right

$29.95

Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, Iq, and the Capitalism of the Far Right

$29.95
Author: Quinn Slobodian
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

How neoliberals turned to nature to defend inequality after the end of the Cold War

Neoliberals should have seen the end of the Cold War as a total victory--but they didn't. Instead, they saw the chameleon of communism changing colors from red to green. The poison of civil rights, feminism, and environmentalism ran through the veins of the body politic and they needed an antidote.

To defy demands for equality, many neoliberals turned to nature. Race, intelligence, territory, and precious metal would be bulwarks against progressive politics. Reading and misreading the writings of their sages, Friedrich Hayek and Ludwig von Mises, they articulated a philosophy of three hards--hardwired human nature, hard borders, and hard money--and forged the alliances with racial psychologists, neoconfederates, ethnonationalists, and goldbugs that would become known as the alt-right.

Following Hayek's bastards from Murray Rothbard to Charles Murray to Javier Milei, we find that key strains of the Far Right emerged within the neoliberal intellectual movement not against it. What has been reported as an ideological backlash against neoliberal globalization in recent years is often more of a frontlash. This history of ideas shows us that the reported clash of opposites is more like a family feud.

Author: Quinn Slobodian
Publisher: Zone Books
Published: 04/15/2025
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.10h x 6.20w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781890951917


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 04/28/2025
Choice 08/01/2025

About the Author
Quinn Slobodian is Professor of International History at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. His most recent books are Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy, Market Civilizations: Neoliberals East and South, and Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism.


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