What We Are Reading Today: Crack-Up Capitalism

What We Are Reading Today: Crack-Up Capitalism
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Updated 10 May 2023
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What We Are Reading Today: Crack-Up Capitalism

What We Are Reading Today: Crack-Up Capitalism

Author: Quinn Slobodian

Quinn Slobodian’s “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. 

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.