The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World

In collaboration with the BU Global Development Policy Center, Center on Latin American Studies, Political Science, Initiative on Cities, Ravi K. Mehrotra Institute, Pardee Center for the Longer-Range Future, Journalism (COM), and Economics, the Center for the Humanities will host Atossa Abrahamian, independent journalist and author of The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World, in conversation with Professor Quinn Slobodian (Pardee) on February 4, 2025 at the Riverside Room (121 Bay State Road).

Abrahamian will discuss the growth of economies outside of and beyond sovereign nation-states. She will explore how 21st-century capitalists escape democratic government and oversight in free trade zones, offshore prisons, charter cities, oceans, war zones, and outer space.

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