Hayek's Bastards

A revelatory exploration of how today’s right-wing authoritarianism emerged not in opposition to neoliberalism, but from within itBracingly original... Hayek’s Bastards demonstrates how a history of ideas can be riveting. Slobodian grounds intellectual abstractions in the lives of the people who espoused them... His book offers an illuminating history to our current bewildering moment, as right-wing populists join forces with billionaire oligarchs to take a chain saw to the foundations of public