The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks The World with Atossa Araxia Abrahamian

If you are someone with the means and the network, you have the ability the hide, move, shield invest and otherwise utilize your money around the globe in a variety of ways that largely go against international treaties and conventional norms.In this episode of Books in 5, the author of The Hidden Globe: How Wealth Hacks The World joins us to reveal how the wealthy are creating a parallel system of special economic zones, charter cities, global detention centers and a number of other schemes to further their interests.Through in-depth reporting and a comprehensive overview of the history of elites bringing the concept of "statelessness" into reality, The Hidden Globe is a must-read to understand how those at the top maintain their position.Atossa Araxia Abrahamian is a journalist whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, New York magazine, the London Review of Books, and other publications. The author of The Cosmopolites: The Coming of the Global Citizen and a 2024 New America National Fellow, she has worked as an editor at The Nation, an opinion editor at Al Jazeera America, and a reporter for Reuters. She grew up in Geneva and lives in Brooklyn.https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/667306/the-hidden-globe-by-atossa-araxia-abrahamian/X: @atossaaraxiahttps://x.com/atossaaraxia