Neoliberalism sought institutions balancing the world economy against political sovereignty

Evidence

Scaling national government up to the planet, creating a global government, was no solution. The puzzle of the neoliberal ­century was to find the right institutions to sustain the often strained balance between the economic world and the po­liti­cal world. … Few thinkers engaged with the consequences of this doubled world more than the group of economists and ­lawyers described in ­these pages. Convinced from the beginning of the ­century that ­there was and could only be a single world economy, they strove to reconcile mutual economic de­pen­dency with po­liti­cal self-­determination. — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 53

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes the book’s core frame: a single world economy coexisting with political self-determination, reconciled by institutions rather than world government.
• XREF: connects to: Insiders, not radicals, deliberately dismantled the postwar global economy — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 213; Neoliberalism’s core project was protecting world markets from democratization — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the…, 34; Geneva School neoliberalism was ordoliberalism scaled up to the world — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the…, 55 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberal founders sought to limit national sovereignty over resources #corroborates (0.88) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 116
• Neoliberalism claims to liberate while actually eroding political sovereignty #corroborates (0.85) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 211
• Neoliberals wanted international rules to discipline states, not just markets #corroborates (0.85) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 266
• Neoliberals wanted an international order forcing anti-inflationary policy onto states #expands (0.80) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 425