I have argued in this chapter that neoliberalism was born in part as a critique of national sovereignty. To neoliberals, nations ­were shifting, provisional, without claims on this or that patch of earth. The po­liti­cal identifications produced by nations led to a disruption of the balance between the economic and the po­liti­cal spheres as participants in ­democracies recklessly turned government bud­gets into reservoirs of personal enrichment.

Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, loc. 399