Academic Writing

Journal Articles

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“The Unequal Mind: How Charles Murray and Neoliberal Think Tanks Revived IQ,” Capitalism: A Journal of History and Economics, 4, no. 1 (Winter 2023): 73-108.

“Useful Savants, One Way Metaphors and the Cartographic Mystique,” contribution to forum “On Transnational and International History,” American Historical Review, 128, no. 1 (March 2023), 255-332.

“The Call to Political Geography,” New German Critique, 50, no. 3 (2023), 185-192.

“Capitalism and Global Governance in Business History: A Roundtable Discussion” Harvard Business School Working Paper Series (2022) (with Sabine Pitteloud, Grace Ballor, Patricia Clavin, Nicolás M. Perrone, Neil Rollings)

(with Niklas Olsen) “Locating Ludwig von Mises: Special Issue Introduction,” Journal of the History of Ideas 83, no. 2 (2022): 257-267.

“World Maps for the Debt Paradigm: Risk Ranking the Poorer Nations in the 1970s,” Critical Historical Studies 8, no. 1 (2021), 1-22.

“The Backlash Against Neoliberal Globalization from Above: Elite Origins of the Crisis of the New Constitutionalism,” Theory, Culture, and Society. Online first: April 2021.

“Demos Veto and Demos Exit: The Neoliberals Who Embraced Referenda and Secession,” Journal of Australian Political Economy 86 (2020), 19-36.

“Anti-68ers and the Racist-Libertarian Alliance: How a Schism among Austrian School Neoliberals Helped Spawn the Alt Right,” Cultural Politics 15, no. 3 (November 2019): 372-386.

“New Histories of Capitalism: A Comment” Australian Historical Studies 50, no. 4 (2019): 522-526.

“Perfect Capitalism, Imperfect Humans: Race, Migration, and the Limits of Ludwig von Mises’s Globalism,” Contemporary European History, Vol. 28, No. 2. (2019): 143-155.

“Germany’s 1968 and its Enemies,” American Historical Review, Vol. 123, No. 3, (2018): 749-752.

“Landscapes of Unrest: Herbert Giersch and the Origins of Neoliberal Economic Geography,” Modern Intellectual History, (2017): 1-31. (with Dieter Plehwe)

“Reading for Neoliberalism, Reading like Neoliberals”American Literary History 29, no. 3 (2017): 602-614. (with Leigh Claire LaBerge)

“The Maoist Enemy: China’s Challenge in 1960s East Germany,” Journal of Contemporary History. Vol. 51, No. 3 (2016): 635-659.

 “How to See the World Economy: Statistics, Maps and Schumpeter’s Camera in the First Age of Globalization,” Journal of Global History, Vol. 10 (2015): 307-332.

“Guerrilla Mothers and Distant Doubles: West German Feminists Look at China and Vietnam,” Zeithistorische Forschungen/Studies in Contemporary History, Vol. 12 (2015): 27 pp.

“The Opaque State: Surveillance and Deportation in the Bundesrepublik,” German Studies Review, Vol. 38, No. 2, (2015): 393-405.

“The World Economy and the Color Line: Wilhelm Röpke, Apartheid and the White Atlantic,” German Historical Institute Bulletin Supplement, No. 10 (2014): 61-87.

“Bandung in Divided Germany: Managing Non-Aligned Politics in East and West, 1955-1963,”The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, Vol. 41, No. 4, (2013): 644–662.

“The Borders of the Rechtsstaat in the Arab Autumn: Deportation and Law in West Germany, 1972/1973,” German History, Vol. 31, No. 2, (2013): 204-224.

Book Chapters

“Roundtable Discussion: Is Neoliberalism now an Exhausted Model?” in Global Political Economy, edited by Nicola Phillips, 76-77. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2023.

“Preface: Fiscal Democracy and the Legacy of Empire.” In Imperial Inequalities: The Politics of Economic Governance Across European Empires, edited by Gurminder Bhambra and Julia McClure, xiv-xvii. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022.

"The Way out of Globalism: Polanyi, Schmitt, and the Market Golem." In The Way out Of, edited by Ekaterina Degot and David Riff, 69-87. Berlin: Hatje Cantz, 2022.

Quinn Slobodian and Dieter Plehwe, “Beyond the Neoliberal Heartlands” Market Civilizations: Neoliberals East and South. Quinn Slobodian and Dieter Plehwe eds. New York: Zone Books, 2022, pp. 7-26.

“Neoliberal Economics and the Double Disfigurement of the Third World,” Parapolitics: Cultural Freedom and the Cold War, Anselm Franke, Nida Ghouse, Paz Guevara and Antonia Majaca, eds. Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2021.

Quinn Slobodian and Dieter Plehwe, “Introduction” Nine Lives of Neoliberalism. Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian, and Philip Mirowski, eds. New York: Verso, 2020, pp. 1-18

“The Law of the Sea of Ignorance: F. A. Hayek, Fritz Machlup and other Neoliberals Confront the Intellectual Property Problem” Nine Lives of Neoliberalism. Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian, and Philip Mirowski, eds. New York: Verso, 2020, pp. 70-92.

Quinn Slobodian and Dieter Plehwe, “Neoliberals against Europe” Mutant Neoliberalism: Market Rule and Political Ruptures. William Callison and Zachary Manfredi, eds. New York: Fordham University Press, 2019, pp. 89-111.

“China is not Far! Alternative Internationalism and the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989 East Germany” Alternative Globalizations: Eastern Europe and the Postcolonial World. James Mark, Steffi Marung and Artemy Kalinovsky, eds. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2020.

“The Meanings of Western Maoism in the Global 1960s” Routledge Handbook of the Global 1960s: Between Protest and Nation-Building. Chen Jian, Martin Klimke, Masha Kirasirova, Mary Nolan, Marilyn Young, Joanna Waley-Cohen, eds. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2018. pp. 67-78

James Mark and Quinn Slobodian, “Eastern Europe in the Global History of Decolonization” The Oxford Handbook of the Ends of Empire. Martin Thomas and Andrew Thompson, eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.

“Socialist Chromatism: Race, Racism and the Racial Rainbow in East Germany” Comrades of Color: East Germany in the Cold War World. Quinn Slobodian, ed. New York: Berghahn, 2015. pp. 23-39.

“The Uses of Disorientation: Socialist Cosmopolitanism in an Unfinished DEFA-China Documentary” Comrades of Color: East Germany in the Cold War World. Quinn Slobodian, ed. New York: Berghahn, 2015. pp. 220-242.

 “»Wir sind Brüder, sagt der Film«: China im Dokumentarfilm der DDR und das Scheitern der politischen Metapher der Brüderlichkeit” Das Imaginäre des Kalten Krieges. Sibylle Marti and David Eugster, eds., Essen: Klartext Verlag, 2015. pp. 45-68.

“Badge Books and Brand Books: The ‘Mao Bible’ in the Two Germanies” Mao’s Little Red Book: A Global History. Alexander Cook, ed. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. pp. 206-224.

“Citizenship-Shifting: Race and Xing-Hu Kuo’s Claim on East German Memory” Imagining Germany Imagining Asia: Essays in Asian-German Studies. Veronika Fuechtner and Mary Rhiel, eds. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2013. pp. 34-49.

“Policing the Fairy Tale: Iranian Dissent in the West German Public Sphere, 1955-1965.” ZeitRäume. Potsdamer Almanach des Zentrums für Zeithistorische Forschung 2011. Frank Bösch and Martin Sabrow, eds. Göttingen: Wallstein, 2012. pp. 159-173.

“What Does Democracy Look Like (and Why Would Anyone Want to Buy it)?: Third World Demands and West German Responses at 1960s World Youth Festivals” Cold War Cultures: Perspectives on Eastern and Western European Societies. Thomas Lindenberger, Annette Vowinckel and Bernd Stöver, eds. New York: Berghahn, 2011. pp. 254-75.

“Corpse Polemics: The Third World and the Politics of Gore in 1960s West Germany” Between the Avant-Garde and the Everyday: Subversive Politics in Europe, 1958-2008. Timothy S. Brown and Lorena Anton eds. New York: Berghahn, 2011. pp. 58-73. 

“West German Labor Internationalism and the Cold War” Divided But Not Disconnected: German Experiences of the Cold War. Tobias Hochscherf, Christoph Haucht and Andrew Plowman, eds. New York: Berghahn, 2010. pp. 77-89. 

“Dissident Guests: Afro-Asian Students and Transnational Activism in the West German Protest Movement” Migration and Activism in Europe Since 1945. Wendy Pojmann, ed. New York: Palgrave, 2008. pp 33-56.