Despite their apparent victory, however, Geneva School neoliberals throughout the twentieth ­century ­were haunted by a vision of a world disintegrating. Sometimes accused of having a smug confidence in the resilience of capitalism, they instead ­were troubled by the possibility that the global conditions that sustain a cap­i­tal­ist world economy ­were fundamentally ­under threat. The dominant emotion felt by the neoliberals at the heart of my narrative was not hubris but anxiety. They expended all of their efforts in attempting to design fixes to stabilize what they saw as a precarious arrangement.

Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, loc. 81