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From the publisher:

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.

Lars Cornelissen is a historian of neoliberalism. His writings have been published in History of European Ideas, Constellations, and Modern Intellectual History. Recent publications include A Neutral Toolkit? For a Fundamental Critique of Constructive Alignment (with Lucy Newby, in Teaching in Higher Education, 2025), Post-War Ordoliberalism, Race and the Politics of Development (in Thomas Biebricher et al. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Ordoliberalism, Oxford University Press, 2022) and Neoliberal Imperialism (in Politics, 2023).

Lars will be joined by Gargi Bhattacharyya, Director of the Sarah Parker Remond Centre at UCL's Institute of Advanced Studies; Siddhant Issar, Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Louisville; and Melayna Lamb, Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Law, London.