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Neoliberalism and Race

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Lars Cornelissen argues that the category of race constitutes an organizing principle of neoliberal ideology. Using the methods of intellectual history and drawing on insights from critical race st...
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  • 14 October 2025
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Lars Cornelissen argues that the category of race constitutes an organizing principle of neoliberal ideology. Using the methods of intellectual history and drawing on insights from critical race studies, Cornelissen explores the various racial constructs that structure neoliberal ideology, some of which are explicit, while others are more coded. Beginning in the interwar period and running through to recent developments, Neoliberalism and Race shows that racial themes have always pervaded neoliberal thinking. The book's key argument is that neoliberal thought is constitutively racialized—its racial motifs cannot be extracted from neoliberalism without rendering it theoretically and politically incoherent. The book aptly explores a wide variety of racial constructs through the structure of neoliberal ideology, deconstructing the conceptualizations in the works of landmark thinkers such as Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Peter Bauer, Thomas Sowell, Charles Murray, and others from the early twentieth century to the present. In this original—perhaps controversial—critique, Cornelissen asserts that neoliberal thinkers were not just the passive recipients of racial discourse, but also directly impacted it.

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Price: $130.00
Pages: 280
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Imprint: Stanford University Press
Series: Currencies: New Thinking for Financial Times
Publication Date: 14 October 2025
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781503643550
Format: Hardcover
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"As our neoliberal world appears to degenerate into racist authoritarianism, Cornelissen demonstrates that race has always been central to the neoliberal project. Compellingly researched and wonderfully broad in its scope, Neoliberalism and Race deserves to fundamentally alter how we understand what neoliberalism has been." —Arun Kundnani, author of What is Antiracism?
Lars Cornelissen is a historian of neoliberalism. His writings have been published in History of European Ideas, Constellations, and Modern Intellectual History.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Liberalism or Barbarism
2. A Listless and Dejected Mass
3. Born Empire Builders
4. Race Is History
5. A Wonderfully Secret Code
Conclusion
Notes
Index