Synopsis
Lectures analyzing liberalism and neoliberalism as arts of governing through markets, competition, and the management of populations.
Core passage idea
Paraphrase · Modern copyrighted workModern liberal government rules less by command than by shaping the conditions in which free, self-interested subjects act.
It reveals freedom itself as a technique of governance, exercised through markets rather than against them.
To avoid a bubble
Pair with Friedrich Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty.
Reading note
Read it as lecture transcripts, more exploratory and provisional than a finished, systematic book.
Best paired with
Friedrich Hayek, The Constitution of Liberty