The hidden globe : how wealth hacks the world
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Published
New York : Riverhead Books, [2024].
Format
Book
ISBN
9780593329856, 0593329856, 9780593854099, 0593854098
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Carpenter-Carse Library - New Materials Area | 305.523 Abr | On Shelf | |
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Huntington Public Library - Adult Non-Fiction | 305.5/2 ABR | Checked Out | February 24, 2025 |
Stowe Free Library - New Materials Area | 305.523 ABRAHAMIAN | Checked Out | February 13, 2025 |
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Published
New York : Riverhead Books, [2024].
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
ISBN
9780593329856, 0593329856, 9780593854099, 0593854098
Notes
Description
"Borders draw one map of the world; money draws another. A journalist's riveting account exposes a parallel universe exempt from the laws of the land, and how the wealthy and powerful benefit from it. The map of the globe depicts the world we think we know: neatly delineated sovereign nations that bestow and restrict the rights of the citizens and entities within their borders. For wealthy individuals and corporations, however, borders are porous, and the globe is pockmarked with thousands of special zones that exist beyond any nation's control, for their benefit. And for those at the opposite end of privilege, the map fails to prevent exploitation by foreign powers, or willfully creates cracks where refugees fleeing war and hardship can be captured and kept in stateless limbo indefinitely. In this fast-paced and fascinating narrative, Atossa Abrahamian explores this parallel universe. Starting in thirteenth-century Switzerland, where a confederation of poor cantons marketed the commodity they had - bodies, in the form of mercenaries - she stalks the legacy of statelessness around world, from an Emirati-owned port in Somalia to the new charter cities, semi-autonomous city-states in poor countries like Honduras that are controlled by foreign governments or multinational corporations, to Luxembourg, which wants to use its tiny perch to send capitalism into outer space via asteroid mining. Along the way, we meet the shadowy CEOs, visionary statesmen, eccentric theorists, prize-winning economists, and alarming ideologues who are the masterminds of this parallel order. By mapping the hidden geography that increasingly determines who wins and who loses in the new global order - and how it might be otherwise - The Hidden Globe fascinates, enrages, and inspires"--,Provided by publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Abrahamian, A. A. (2024). The hidden globe: how wealth hacks the world . Riverhead Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Abrahamian, Atossa Araxia. 2024. The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World. New York: Riverhead Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Abrahamian, Atossa Araxia. The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World New York: Riverhead Books, 2024.
Harvard Citation (style guide)Abrahamian, A. A. (2024). The hidden globe: how wealth hacks the world. New York: Riverhead Books.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Abrahamian, Atossa Araxia. The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World Riverhead Books, 2024.
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