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Author:

Slobodian, Quinn, 1978- author.

Title:

Crack-up capitalism : market radicals and the dream of a world without democracy / Quinn Slobodian.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Metropolitan BooksHenry Holt and Company,

Copyright Date:

2023

Description:

336 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Capitalism--Political aspects.
Free enterprise--Political aspects.
Democracy--Economic aspects.
Economics--Political aspects.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-318) and index.

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.

ISBN:

1250753899
9781250753892

LCCN:

2023005520

Locations:

DBPE173 -- Clear Lake Public Library (Clear Lake)

CDPF771 -- Clive Public Library (Clive)

XXPH787 -- Council Bluffs Public Library (Council Bluffs)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)