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The Offshore World: Sovereign Markets, Virtual Places, and Nomad Millionaires
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by Ronen Palan


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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 "offshore" banking center. Indeed, it is estimated that half of the global stock of money passes through tax havens. The logic of the offshore world, where millionaires and corporations roam in search of financial advantage, is slippery. It challenges many conventional assumptions about power and economics.In the single most comprehensive account of the offshore economy, Ronen Palan investigates the legal spaces, unregulated and yet maintained and supported by the state system, that have emerged for purposes of international finance, tax havens, export processing zones, flags of convenience, and e-commerce. The offshore economy had its beginnings in the late nineteenth century, saw early development after the First World War, 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.

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  • Title The Offshore World: Sovereign Markets, Virtual Places, and Nomad Millionaires
  • Author Ronen Palan
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition (U
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cornell University Press, Ithaca
  • Date 2003-06-15
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780801440557 / 0801440556
  • Weight 1.03 lbs (0.47 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.16 x 7 x 0.82 in (23.27 x 17.78 x 2.08 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects Investments, Foreign, Investments, Foreign - Law and legislation
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002155043
  • Dewey Decimal Code 332.042

About the author

Ronen Palan is Professor of International Relations and Politics at the University of Sussex. He is a coeditor of the Review of International Political Economy, editor of Global Political Economy: Contemporary Theories and coauthor of State Strategies in the Global Political Economy.

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