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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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