Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy

Description: Crack-Up Capitalism by Quinn Slobodian 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 youll 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 worlds 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. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Quinn Slobodian is the author of the award-winning Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism, which has been translated into six languages. A frequent contributor to the Guardian, Foreign Policy, Dissent, the Nation, the New Statesman, and the New York Times, he is a professor of the history of ideas at Wellesley College. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Review A Fortune best nonfiction book of 2023 "Slobodian has done us a great service, identifying a phenomenon that needs unmasking...Crack-up capitalism, for all its spread and the enthusiasm of its advocates, is ultimately a blind alley."--The Guardian "Ranging from Liechtenstein to Somalia, and from Hong Kong to Silicon Valley, Quinn Slobodians Crack-Up Capitalism exposes how zones of exception promise capitalism an escape from the confines of the modern state and the constraints of democracy. Revelatory reading. A worthy successor to Slobodians brilliant Globalists."--Adam Tooze, author of Crashed "In Crack-Up Capitalism, Quinn Slobodian takes us on a wild ride through the fenced-in compounds and failed states of todays capitalist world, and invites us to imagine a future where the rich have privatized safety, turned working people into a disposable servant class, and bought entire countries outright. This sharp and wickedly entertaining book is a necessary field guide to the LARPers, bloggers, and grifters of the libertarian and anarcho-capitalist world, a warning that they are closer to fulfilling their fantasies than we might think, and a clarion call for collective action to preserve--and greatly expand--democracy as we know it."--Sarah Jaffe, author of Work Wont Love You Back "Revelatory. In this head-spinner of a book, Quinn Slobodian shows how zones, islands, micronations, gated communities, and cyber realms are remaking our planet. The capitalist future they portend isnt a borderless utopia but a jurisdictional shatter belt, where democracy is a distant dream."--Daniel Immerwahr, author of How to Hide an Empire "Quinn Slobodians eye-catching case studies warn against the powerful movement seeking a radical capitalist future...The story is told over the course of 11 lively and engaging chapters...[a] unique and highly entertaining collection of case studies of the logic of capitalist Exit."--Financial Times "So many debates about contemporary capitalism get bogged down in false dichotomies: markets versus states, empires versus nations, global economy versus local sovereignty. With a bracing argument and a brisk style, Quinn Slobodian cuts through those thickets, disclosing some 5,400 interconnected zones, across the world, of capitalism without democracy. From London to Hong Kong, Singapore to South Africa, the governors of these zones havent done away with cops or rules, bureaucrats or borders. Theyve dispensed with elections and popular control. Theyve created a feudalism of the future. Thank God we have Slobodian to think our way through it."--Corey Robin, author of The Reactionary Mind "An instant political classic. Quinn Slobodian has produced an extraordinary book, showing how capitalists have been punching holes in national governance to enrich themselves and marginalize democratic self-determination. Filled with characters too strange for fiction and written with engaging brio, Crack-Up Capitalism confirms Slobodians reputation as our leading historian of neoliberalism."--Samuel Moyn, author of Humane "A fascinating and important book, which brings to the surface some of the deepest political undercurrents of our times. Crack-Up Capitalism is an exemplary use of history to illuminate the present, forcing us to reassess what we thought we knew about the contemporary world."-- Hari Kunzru, author of White Tears and Red Pill "Slobodian has written a fascinating account of the sheer hubris of the market radicals who have sought to free capitalism from democracy first by transforming the worlds political geography and now by abandoning the material world. He tells this important story with verve and considerable insight." --Helen Thompson, author of Disorder "With each new book, Quinn Slobodian adds extraordinary new detail to his ongoing account of 21st-century political and economic arrangements. Crack-up Capitalism is concerned with the zones of global space: the micro-divisions and gradations from which the real atomic force of our system derives. Its very convincing: get ready to throw out all previous maps."--Rana Dasgupta, author of Capital "Brilliant. A vital contribution to the whither democracy debate."--Wendy Brown, author of In the Ruins of Neoliberalism "Compelling...Quinn Slobodians vivid description of zones shows us why our political system can no longer be said to be democratic...Slobodian wakes us up to democracys underthrow: decentralization is a strategy for its unraveling, not its salvation."--Los Angeles Review of Books "After reading historian Quinn Slobodians new book, you are not likely to think about capitalism the same way...Crack-Up Capitalism is an important guide to the current struggle over how the ruling class rules. And Slobodian ultimately raises the question of whether there are cracks in the system, or whether the cracks are the system."--Jacobin Details ISBN1250871859 Author Quinn Slobodian Publisher St Martins Press Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781250871855 Format Paperback Publication Date 2024-04-02 Imprint St Martins Press Subtitle Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2024-04-02 NZ Release Date 2024-04-02 US Release Date 2024-04-02 UK Release Date 2024-04-02 DEWEY 330.122 Audience General Language English ISBN-10 1250871859 Pages 352 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159168881;

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