Crack-up capitalism market radicals and the dream of a world without democracy
Look at a map of the world and you’ll see a colorful checkerboard of nation-states. But this is not how capitalism actually works. Over the past decade, globalization has shattered the map into different legal spaces where money, goods, and power flow: free ports, tax havens, special economic zones....
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York
Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company
2023
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| Ausgabe: | First edition |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Look at a map of the world and you’ll see a colorful checkerboard of nation-states. But this is not how capitalism actually works. Over the past decade, globalization has shattered the map into different legal spaces where money, goods, and power flow: free ports, tax havens, special economic zones. Inspired by the new spaces, ultracapitalists have started to believe that it is possible to escape the bonds of democratic government and oversight altogether. This volume follows the most notorious radical libertarians – from Milton Friedman and his descendants to Peter Thiel – around the globe as they search for the perfect laboratory for capitalism. Historian Quinn Slobodian leads us from Hong Kong in the 1970s to South Africa in the late days of apartheid, from the neo-Confederate South to the former frontier of the American West, from the medieval City of London to the world's oceans and war zones, charting the relentless quest for a blank slate where market competition is unfettered by democracy. A masterful work of economic and intellectual history, Crack-Up Capitalism offers, through rich details and provocative analysis, both a new way of looking at the world and an alarming view of a possible future. |
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| Beschreibung: | Enthält Literaturangaben und ein Register |
| Beschreibung: | 336 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9781250753892 978-1-250-75389-2 1250753899 1-250-75389-9 |