#61 Double government and the neoliberal world w/ Quinn Slobodian

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🗓️ 30 September 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Quinn Slobodian joins me to talk about neoliberalism as a project of institutional design, the significance of the Hapsburg Empire to the neoliberal concept of double government that came to be instantiated in such institutions as the WTO, the IMF, and the EU and we also talked about whether capital's solution to the collapse in consent for neoliberal governmentality could be something even worse.

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0:05.0	The men beat on their drums. I'm going to be. I'm going to
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0:26.6	and Hello and welcome to Politics Theory Other, a podcast from Tribune magazine.
0:49.4	My name is Alex Doherty and my guest today is Quincelobodian.
0:53.0	We spoke about neoliberalism as a project
0:55.1	of institutional design, the significance of the Habsburg Empire to the neoliberal concept of double
1:00.8	government that came to be instantiated in such institutions as the WTO and the IMF. And we also talked
1:07.8	about the European Union and the possibility of reforming the EU in a progressive
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