Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit, from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age/ (Record no. 4845)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781629639178 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Craib, Raymond |
| 9 (RLIN) | 6900 |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit, from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age/ |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Raymond Craib |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | PM Press; |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2022 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 304p; |
| Dimensions | 21x13cm |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | An island utopia governed solely by the rules of the market and inspired by the fictions of Ayn Rand and Robinson Crusoe. Sound far-fetched? It may not be. The past half century is littered with the remains of such experiments in what Raymond calls “libertarian exit.” Often dismissed as little more than the dreams of crazy, rich Caucasians, exit strategies have been tried out from the southwest Pacific to the Caribbean, from the North Sea to the high seas, often with dire consequences for local inhabitants. Based on research in archives in the US, the UK, and Vanuatu, as well as in FBI files acquired through the Freedom of Information Act, Craib explores in careful detail the ideology and practice of libertarian exit and its place in the histories of contemporary capitalism, decolonization, empire, and oceans and islands. Adventure Capitalism is a global history that intersects with an array of figures: Fidel Castro and the Koch brothers, American segregationists and Melanesian socialists, Honolulu-based real estate speculators and British Special Branch spies, soldiers of fortune and English lords, Orange County engineers and Tongan navigators, CIA operatives and CBS news executives, and a new breed of techno-utopians and an old guard of Honduran coup leaders. This is not only a history of our time but, given the new iterations of privatized exit―seasteads, free private cities, and space colonization―it is also a history of our future. |
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| Language note | English |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Capitalism- Exit strategy |
| 9 (RLIN) | 6901 |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | HB501 Economic theory. Capitalism |
| 9 (RLIN) | 6902 |
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| Social Sciences | SAF Reference Library | SAF Reference Library | 02/17/2025 | SB16- Reading rooms- Requested by Amal Khalaf | HB501 38.706 | 4845 | 02/17/2025 | 02/17/2025 | Book | |||||
| Social Sciences | SAF Reference Library | SAF Reference Library | 02/17/2025 | SB16- Reading rooms- Requested by Amal Khalaf | HB501 38.706 | 02/17/2025 | 02/17/2025 | Book |