{"product_id":"adventure-capitalism-a-history-of-libertarian-exit-from-the-era-of-decolonization-to-the-digital-age-9781629639178","title":"Adventure Capitalism: A History of Libertarian Exit, from the Era of Decolonization to the Digital Age","description":"\u003cb\u003eImagine a capitalist paradise.\u003c\/b\u003e An island utopia governed\u003cbr\u003e solely by the rules of the market and inspired by the fictions\u003cbr\u003e of Ayn Rand and Robinson Crusoe. Sound far-fetched? It may not\u003cbr\u003e be. The past half century is littered with the remains of such\u003cbr\u003e experiments in what Raymond Craib calls\u003cbr\u003e \"libertarian exit.\" Often dismissed as little more than the\u003cbr\u003e dreams of crazy, rich Caucasians, exit strategies have been\u003cbr\u003e tried out from the southwest Pacific to the Caribbean, from\u003cbr\u003e the North Sea to the high seas, often with dire consequences\u003cbr\u003e for local inhabitants. Based on research in archives in the\u003cbr\u003e US, the UK, and Vanuatu, as well as in FBI files acquired\u003cbr\u003e through the Freedom of Information Act, Craib explores in\u003cbr\u003e careful detail the ideology and practice of libertarian exit\u003cbr\u003e and its place in the histories of contemporary cap-italism, \u003cbr\u003e decolonization, empire, and oceans and islands. \u003ci\u003eAdventure\u003cbr\u003e Capitalism \u003c\/i\u003eis\u003cbr\u003e a global history that intersects with an array of figures: \u003cbr\u003e Fidel Castro and the Koch brothers, American segregationists\u003cbr\u003e and Melanesian socialists, Honolulu-based real estate\u003cbr\u003e speculators and British Special Branch spies, soldiers of\u003cbr\u003e fortune and English lords, Orange County engineers and Tongan\u003cbr\u003e navigators, CIA operatives and CBS news executives, and a new\u003cbr\u003e breed of techno-utopians and an old guard of Honduran coup\u003cbr\u003e leaders. This is not only a history of our time but, given the\u003cbr\u003e new iterations of privatized exit--seasteads, free private\u003cbr\u003e cities, and space colonization--it is also a history of our\u003cbr\u003e future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e PM Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/05\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781629639178\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.82h x 5.98w x 1.02d","brand":"Raymond Craib","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42223358869685,"sku":"9781629639178","price":21.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_a7f925a9-3562-4ba0-86a6-14e0f93bd0cf.jpg?v=1655780545","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/adventure-capitalism-a-history-of-libertarian-exit-from-the-era-of-decolonization-to-the-digital-age-9781629639178","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}