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wages, low
Walker, William
walled settlements
Walters, Alan
war economy
“warfare-welfare state”
Warsame, Flory Barnabas
Waterman’s Arms
wealth, concentration of
“wealth hoarders”
wealth management
welfare
welfare state
absence of
end of
starvation of through cybercash
wergeld (“man-price”)
West Bank
Western International Ground Maintenance Organization
Wetherell, Sam
white nationalism
white supremacy
“wild zone”
William I. Koch Commission on Crime Reduction and Prevention
Wilson, Harold
Wilson, Woodrow
Winsemius, Albert
workforce, female
World Architectural congress
World Bank
World Economic Forum, Davos
World of Warcraft
World Press Freedom list
World Trade Organization
World War I
World War II
Wyoming
xeer
Xi Jinping
Yanukovych, Viktor
Yarvin, Curtis
Yemen
Yugoslavia
dissolution of
Zaha Hadid Architects
Zambia
ZEDE (zona de empleo y desarrollo económico, “zone of employment and economic development”)
Zhao Ziyang
Zheng He
Zionism
zombie architecture
zone fever
zones. See also specific locations; specific types of zones
dream of
of exception
functions served for the capitalist right
gated communities as
homelands as
Hong Kong as prototype for
micronations as
new forms of
pervasiveness of
as “political crowbar”
property rights and
as refuge
sold as models of sustainability
as tools for states
Trump’s debt to
twenty-first-century capitalism and
United States as
zonification
Zuckerberg, Mark
Zucman, Gabriel
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
QUINN SLOBODIAN is the author of the award-winning Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism, which has been translated into seven languages. A frequent contributor to the Guardian, Foreign Policy, Dissent, the Nation, the New Statesman, and the New York Times, he is a professor of the history of ideas at Wellesley College. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. You can sign up for email updates here.
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CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Epigraph
Introduction: Shatter the Map
PART I. ISLANDS
1. Two, Three, Many Hong Kongs
2. City in Shards
3. The Singapore Solution
PART II. PHYLES
4. Libertarian Bantustan
5. The Wonderful Death of a State
6. Cosplaying the New Middle Ages
7. Your Own Private Liechtenstein
PART III. FRANCHISE NATIONS
8. A White Man’s Business Clan in Somalia
9. The Legal Bubble-Domes of Dubai
10. Silicon Valley Colonialism
11. A Cloud Country in the Metaverse
Conclusion: Be Water
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
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About the Author
Copyright
CRACK-UP CAPITALISM. Copyright © 2023 by Quinn Slobodian. All rights reserved. For information, address Henry Holt and Co., 120 Broadway, New York, N.Y. 10271.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Slobodian, Quinn, 1978- author.
Title: Crack-up capitalism : market radicals and the dream of a world without democracy / Quinn Slobodian.
Description: First edition. | New York : Metropolitan Books, [2023] | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2023005520 (print) | LCCN 2023005521 (ebook) | ISBN 9781250753892 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781250753908 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Capitalism—Political aspects. | Free enterprise—Political aspects. | Democracy—Economic aspects. | Economics—Political aspects.
Classification: LCC HB501 .S61946 2023 (print) | LCC HB501 (ebook) | DDC 330.12/2—dc23/eng/20230203
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