The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World
A season of unrest looms ahead, and The Hidden Globe lays out the unvarnished truth in a luminous feat of reportage.
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Abrahamian’s interviews with the people — the vast majority of them men — who helped develop and run these special economic zones provide a window into how just a few economists and consultants could change the way countries around the world operate. But her accounts of the conversations can be meandering, and sometimes divert her from a focus on the final product: the unusual jurisdictions her book seeks to illuminate ... Finding solace in a place without borders makes for a nice conclusion, but it skips over the question of what to do about the rest of the world — the hidden globe of Abrahamian’s title. The answer might require another book.
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Sharply observed descent into the labyrinth of finance and semantics with which nations and the superrich secure their wealth ... Her well-researched, engrossing work manages the minutiae of several fields, including telecommunications, maritime law, and fine art, to stitch together a multilayered tale of how privilege works to protect itself.
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