Quinn Slobodian is professor of international history at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. He is the author or editor of seven books including, most recently, Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World without Democracy, has been translated into six languages. Forthcoming is Hayek’s Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ and the Capitalism of the Far Right. A previous book, Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism (Harvard University Press, 2018), won the American Historical Association’s George Louis Beer Prize. He has held fellowships at Harvard University, Freie Universität Berlin, and Roma Tre, and his work has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Andrew S. Mellon Foundation, and the Volkswagen Foundation. He was a research fellow at Chatham House, is co-director of the History and Political Economy Project, and is a member of the Board of Editors of the American Historical Review. He writes frequently for New Statesman, New York Review of Books, New York Times, and elsewhere. In 2024, Prospect UK named him one of the World’s 25 Top Thinkers.

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