{"product_id":"the-hidden-globe-how-wealth-hacks-the-world-9780593329856","title":"The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE TOP 5 BOOKS OF 2024 ON CBS \u003ci\u003eSUNDAY MORNING\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eONE OF \u003ci\u003eTHE WASHINGTON POST'\u003c\/i\u003eS TOP 10 BOOKS OF 2024 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e NOTABLE BOOK \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Vivid, revelatory, and politically unpredictable...What bothers Abrahamian, in the end, isn't the anarchic but the unfair; if capital is free, people deserve the same respect.\" \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eGideon Lewis-Kraus, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e The New Yorker\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003cb\u003eA season of unrest looms ahead, and \u003ci\u003eThe Hidden Globe\u003c\/i\u003e lays out the unvarnished truth in a luminous feat of reportage.\"--Hamilton Cain, Minneapolis \u003ci\u003eStar Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBorders draw one map of the world; money draws another. A journalist's riveting account exposes a parallel universe that has become a haven for the rich and powerful. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA globe shows the world we think we know: neatly delineated sovereign nations that grant or restrict their citizens' rights. Beneath, above, and tucked inside their borders, however, another universe has been engineered into existence. It consists of thousands of extraterritorial zones that operate largely autonomously, and increasingly for the benefit of the wealthiest individuals and corporations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAtossa Abrahamian traces the rise of this hidden globe to thirteenth-century Switzerland, where poor cantons marketed their only commodity: bodies, in the form of mercenary fighters. Over time, economists, theorists, statesmen, and consultants evolved ever more sophisticated ways of exporting and exploiting statelessness, in the form of free trade zones, flags of convenience, offshore detention centers, charter cities controlled by foreign corporations, and even into outer space. By mapping this countergeography, which decides who wins and who loses in the new global order--and helping us to see how it might be otherwise--\u003ci\u003eThe Hidden Globe\u003c\/i\u003e fascinates, enrages, and inspires.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAtossa Araxia Abrahamian\u003c\/b\u003e is a journalist whose writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e magazine, the\u003ci\u003e London Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, and other publications. The author of \u003ci\u003eThe Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen\u003c\/i\u003e and a 2024 New America National Fellow, she has worked as an editor at \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, an opinion editor at Al Jazeera America, and a reporter for \u003ci\u003eReuters\u003c\/i\u003e. She grew up in Geneva and lives in Brooklyn.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50874910507282,"sku":"9780593329856","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8b8e82c8-0f09-42db-b05f-1c1cbd0557fe.jpg?v=1738011437","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-hidden-globe-how-wealth-hacks-the-world-9780593329856","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}