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''Gonzo brilliance ... unique and highly entertaining'' Financial Times

''Revelatory reading'' Adam Tooze, author of Crashed

''After reading Quinn Slobodian''s new book, you are not likely to think about capitalism the same way'' Jacobin

Look at a map of the world and you''ll see a neat patchwork of nation-states. But this is not where power actually resides. From the 1990s onwards, globalization has shattered the map, leading to an explosion of new legal entities: tax havens, free ports, city-states, gated enclaves and special economic zones. These new spaces are freed from ordinary forms of regulation, taxation and mutual obligation - and with them, ultracapitalists believe that it is possible to escape the bonds of democratic government and oversight altogether.

Historian Quinn Slobodian follows the most notorious radical libertarians - from Milton Friedman to Peter Thiel - around the globe as they search for the perf

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''Gonzo brilliance ... unique and highly entertaining'' Financial Times''Revelatory reading'' Adam Tooze, author of Crashed''After reading Quinn Slobodian''s new book,... Read more

    Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
    Publication Date: 01/04/2024
    ISBN13: 9780141993768, 978-0141993768
    ISBN10: 141993766

    Non Fiction , History , Non Fiction

    Description

    ''Gonzo brilliance ... unique and highly entertaining'' Financial Times

    ''Revelatory reading'' Adam Tooze, author of Crashed

    ''After reading Quinn Slobodian''s new book, you are not likely to think about capitalism the same way'' Jacobin

    Look at a map of the world and you''ll see a neat patchwork of nation-states. But this is not where power actually resides. From the 1990s onwards, globalization has shattered the map, leading to an explosion of new legal entities: tax havens, free ports, city-states, gated enclaves and special economic zones. These new spaces are freed from ordinary forms of regulation, taxation and mutual obligation - and with them, ultracapitalists believe that it is possible to escape the bonds of democratic government and oversight altogether.

    Historian Quinn Slobodian follows the most notorious radical libertarians - from Milton Friedman to Peter Thiel - around the globe as they search for the perf

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