The Great Depression’s financial storms convinced intellectuals that humanity was one indivisible economy

Evidence

Raven recorded that the breakthrough for this vision had been first the ­Great War, ­after which the idea of “worldwide order” became a “working conviction” for many but ­really took hold ­after the “financial storms of the years 1928 and 1929,” which gave “the World-­State prophets the courage of their conviction”—­“they had arrived at the realization that ­human society had become one indivisible economic system.” — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 294

Categorization

• SHARE: For a reader interested in how economic crises change political imaginaries — the Depression as the moment ‘worldwide order’ became a working conviction.
• XREF: connects to: Neoliberalism emerged from the Great Depression, not from Viennese interwar thought alone — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 101; The Depression radicalized British intellectuals toward socialism and communism — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2369; Ideology shapes economic crisis rather than merely reflecting it (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• The Depression radicalized British intellectuals toward socialism and communism #exemplifies (0.80) — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2369
• Neoliberalism emerged from the Great Depression, not from Viennese interwar thought alone #qualifies (0.78) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 101
• The Great Depression and socialist threat drove inclusion of social rights in the UDHR #expands (0.75) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 150
• Ideology shapes economic crisis rather than merely reflecting it #expands (0.72)
• Robbins recanted his earlier Great Depression extremism #exemplifies (0.70) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 414