Hayek's Bastards

Quinn Slobodian traces how neoliberal thought adapted after the Cold War by turning to nature, science, and cultural hierarchy. The book examines how market ideology came to be linked with competition, homogeneity, and resistance to social change.

It follows the intellectual development of these ideas through figures and movements associated with the contemporary far right. The result is a political history of how arguments about race, gender, freedom, and authority were woven into neoliberal thinking.