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Dig: Crack-Up Capitalism w/ Quinn Slobodian

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The Power of Exit: A New Introduction by Angela Davis

In an autobiography, Davis describes her journey from her childhood in Alabama to one of the century's most significant political trials. In terms of the power of exit, you write that once capital flees to new low tax unregulated zones, nonconforming economies would be forced to emulate these anomalies. By starting small, the zone sets out to model a new end state for all. How is this capital flight induced theory of change supposed to operate? And then how does it relate to the more mundane general, longstanding logic of capital mobility that we're all too familiar with?

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