02221cam a2200313 i 4500 774327263 TxAuBib 20230526120000.0 230203s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023005520 9781250753892 HRD 29.99 1250753899 HRD 29.99 TxAuBib rda Slobodian, Quinn, 1978-, author Crack-up capitalism. Crack-up capitalism [BOOK] : market radicals and the dream of a world without democracy / Quinn Slobodian. First edition. New York : Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company, 2023. 336 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-318) and index. 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. Provided by publisher. 20230526. Capitalism Political aspects. Free enterprise Political aspects. Democracy Economic aspects. Economics Political aspects.