You may think you have a pretty good idea of the world map, but Atossa Araxia Abrahamian explains how special economic zones, tax havens, and free ports are carving up the planet for the highest ...

The idea of carving out territorial exceptions to, or escape zones from, the hand of the nation-state has long captured the imagination of free market enthusiasts. In the 1990s, I was involved in ...

French economist Thomas Piketty has long argued that the richest figures and their heirs will only grow exponentially wealthier in the coming decades, concealing fortunes in offshore tax havens and ...

In reviewing Atossa Araxia Abrahamian’s excellent book, The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks the World, I wrote that we need more academics (Abrahamian is a journalist) researching wealth and wealth ...

One way to understand our national erosion of inclusion, replaced by an ascendant strain of intolerance, is as a reaction to growing inequality. The right has weaponized legitimate fears about ...

Atossa Araxia Abrahamian is a former editor at the left-of-centre US magazine The Nation and also worked at Al Jazeera America. She is now an independent journalist and author living in New York who, ...

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. You may think you have a pretty good idea of the world map, but Atossa Araxia Abrahamian explains how special economic ...