Dig: Crack-Up Capitalism w/ Quinn Slobodian
Jacobin Radio
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The History of the Shannon Airport in Ireland
In the early ages of transatlantic flight, you couldn't get all the way from say New York to London and one tank of gas. Shannon International Airport was one in such place where there was always people waiting for their plane to be refueled,. There were also places that sprang up like Puerto Rico in the 1950s and 60s and Taiwan in the 1960s. But it really didn't take off until the late 1970s, which is when China adopted the zone as kind of the way with which it would open up its domestic economy.
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