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

In a revelatory dispatch from the frontier of capitalist extremism, an acclaimed historian of ideas shows how...
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Author: Quinn Slobodian
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Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy by Slobodian, Quinn

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

€42,56

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

€42,56
Author: Quinn Slobodian
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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.

Author: Quinn Slobodian
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Published: 04/04/2023
Pages: 352
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.12w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781250753892


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 11/01/2022 pg. 13
Publishers Weekly 01/09/2023
Kirkus Reviews 01/15/2023

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