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The offshore world : sovereign markets, virtual places and nomad millionaires

Ronen P. Palan (Author)
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...
Print Book, English, 2003
Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 2003
225 p. ; 24 cm
9780801440557, 0801440556
470334905
The offshore economy in its contemporary settings
State, capital, and the production of offshore
The emergence of embryonic forms of offshore
The growth of an offshore economy
Offshore and the internationalization of the state
Offshore and the demise of the nation-state
Bibliogr. p. 203-219. Index