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Crack-up capitalism : market radicals and the dream of a world without democracy / Quinn Slobodian.
Lippincott Library HB501 .S61946 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Slobodian, Quinn, 1978- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Capitalism--Political aspects.
- Capitalism.
- Free enterprise--Political aspects.
- Free enterprise.
- Democracy--Economic aspects.
- Democracy.
- Economics--Political aspects.
- Economics.
- Physical Description:
- 336 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Market radicals and the dream of a world without democracy
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2023.
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Shatter the map
- Part I. Islands. Two, three, many Hong Kongs
- City in shards
- The Singapore solution
- Part II. Phyles. Libertarian Bantustan
- The wonderful death of a state
- Cosplaying the new Middle Ages
- Your own private Liechtenstein
- Part III. Franchise nations. A white man's business clan in Somalia
- The legal bubble-domes of Dubai
- Silicon Valley colonialism
- A cloud country in the metaverse
- Conclusion: Be water.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Slobodian, Quinn, 1978- Crack-up capitalism
- ISBN:
- 9781250753892
- 1250753899
- OCLC:
- 1368219176
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