Crack-Up Capitalism Quotes

“So long as you have tax pirates,” he said, “I don’t feel any moral guilt about being a tax haven just as people once took up slaves to help them escape their poor fate.”82”
― Quinn Slobodian, Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy

“the Arabian Peninsula offered evidence that political freedom may actually corrode economic freedom.”
― Quinn Slobodian, Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy

“What is a zone? At its most basic, it is an enclave carved out of a nation and freed from ordinary forms of regulation. The usual powers of taxation are often suspended within its borders, letting investors effectively dictate their own rules. The zones are quasi-extraterritorial, both of the host state and distinct from it.”
― Quinn Slobodian, Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy