Aditya Balasubramanian

The unknown history of economic conservatism in India after independence Neoliberalism is routinely characterised as an antidemocratic, expert-driven project aimed at insulating markets from politics, devised in the North Atlantic and projected onto the rest of the world. Revising this understanding, Toward a Free Economy shows how economic conservatism emerged and was disseminated in a postcolonial society consistent with the...

A deep investigation of neoliberalism's proselytizers in Eastern Europe and the Global South Where does free market ideology come from? Recent work on the neoliberal intellectual movement around the Mont Pelerin Society has allowed for closer study of the relationship between ideas, interests, and institutions. Yet even as this literature brought neoliberalism down to earth, it tended to reproduce a...