About the Event
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 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.
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.
This event takes place as part of our Amerikahaus Book Talks series.
Photo: Quinn Slobodian ©Tony Luong
Tony Luong
Quinn Slobodian
Quinn Slobodian is the author of the award-winning Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism, which has been translated into six 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.
Magdalena Jooß
Lea Hampel
Lea Hampel, born 1984, studied economic and social history as well as intercultural communications and graduated from the German School of Journalism (Deutsche Journalistenschule). Her work, both text publications and audio productions, appear in Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeinen Sonntagszeitung, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, stern, Deutschlandradio and in Bayerischer Rundfunk. She has been awarded, among others, with the Karl-Buchrucker-Preis and the Deutscher Journalistenpreis. Lea Hampel primarily investigates stories at the intersection of economy and society. She is especially interested in alternative business models and questions of sustainability and the job market. She often works abroad, most recently in Seattle/Washington.
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