Title:
Crack-up capitalism : market radicals and the dream of a world without democracy / Quinn Slobodian.
ISBN:
9781250753892
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York, New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2023.
©2023
Physical Description:
336 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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.
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.
OCLC Number:
on1368219176
Availability:
Apple Valley - Galaxie~1
Eagan - Wescott~1
