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The Triumph of the Commons in Barbuda

It Could Happen Here

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Antigua and Babuda's Disaster Capitalism

Two years after Hurricane Irma, most of Antigua's residents have returned to the island. But Prime Minister Gaston Alfonso Brown has been making moves essentially to privatize Wabuda. "He seems to be employing the shock doctrine tactic of using environmental catastrophe and social displacement to accelerate capitalism," she says.

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