Book
Crack-up capitalism : market radicals and the dream of a world without democracy / Quinn Slobodian.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781250753892 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 336 pages : illustration, maps ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company, 2023.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Capitalism > Political aspects. Democracy > Economic aspects. Economics > Political aspects. Free enterprise > Political aspects. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Stroud Branch | 330.122 Slo | 31681010317154 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
"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"-- - Baker & Taylor
The author of the award-winning Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism looks at the ways that radical free-marketeers are forging an end to nation-states and the constraints of democracy. 75,000 first printing. Illustrations. - McMillan Palgrave
A Fortune best nonfiction book of 2023
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 youâll 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 libertariansâfrom Milton Friedman to Peter Thielâaround 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 worldâs 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.
