Description: Crack-Up Capitalism : Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy, Paperback by Slobodian, Quinn, ISBN 1250871859, ISBN-13 9781250871855, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US A Fortune best nonfiction book of 2023 In a revelatory dispatch from the frontier of capitalist extremism, an acclaimed historian of ideas shows how free marketeers are realizing their ultimate goal: an end to nation-states and the constraints of democracy. Look at a map of the world and you’ll see a colorful checkerboard of nation-states. But this is not where power actually resides. Over the last decade, globalization has shattered the map into different legal spaces: free ports, tax havens, special economic zones. With the new spaces, ultracapitalists have started to believe that it is possible to escape the bonds of democratic government and oversight altogether. Crack-Up Capitalism follows the most notorious radical libertarians—from Milton Friedman to Peter Thiel—around the globe as they search for the perfect space 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 gold vaults of right-wing billionaires, and finally into 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 both a new way of looking at the world and a new vision of coming threats. Full of rich details and provocative analysis, Crack-Up Capitalism offers an alarming view of a possible future.
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Book Title: Crack-Up Capitalism : Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Holt & Company, Henry
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 2024
Topic: Economic History, Globalization
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Business & Economics
Item Weight: 13.4 Oz
Item Length: 8.9 in
Author: Quinn Slobodian
Item Width: 5.9 in
Format: Trade Paperback
