The Offshore World

Informationen zum Autor Ronen Palan Klappentext The offshore economy had its beginnings in the late 19th century, saw early development after World War I, and metastasized in the 1970s. Palan believes that a rapidly expanding offshore economy is now producing a new market in sovereignty; states have discovered that their rights to write law may be used as a commercial asset. This commercialization of sovereignty, he asserts, undermines the legitimacy of the nation-state and supports a form of nomadic capitalism. Zusammenfassung The atlas of contemporary capitalism is curious indeed. A desperately poor and civil-war-wracked nation! Liberia! is the world's shipping superpower; the Cayman Islands the fifth-largest financial center in the world; land-locked Zurich a venerable...

Product details

• Authors: Ronen Palan
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 03.07.2003
• EAN: 9780801440557
• ISBN: 978-0-8014-4055-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 240 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Internationale Beziehungen, Internationale Wirtschaft, Internationales Management, Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie, Geldwirtschaft, Währungspolitik