Angus Burgin

Dec 19, 2023 | democracyjournal.org | Angus Burgin

In the days after Milton Friedman died in November 2006, newspapers and magazines released all the expected memorials for a transformative figure in the economic life of the twentieth century. But while they aligned in their accounts of the breadth of his influence, their views on its implications starkly differed.

Sep 5, 2023 | dissentmagazine.org | Angus Burgin |Adam Tooze |Michael C. Behrent |Natasha Lennard

Who Built the Zones? Special economic zones are not just a product of the effort to free capitalism from democratic authority. They are a response to a broader anxiety about power imbalance between multinational corporations and national governments. ▪ Fall 2023 Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracyby Quinn SlobodianMetropolitan Books, 2023, 352 pp.

Sep 5, 2023 | dissentmagazine.org | Bijan Stephen |Angus Burgin |Victoria Baena |Rich Yeselson

Crime Online The majority of property crimes now occur online. Our legal system hasn’t caught up. ▪ Fall 2023 Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacksby Scott J. ShapiroFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023, 432 pp. Crime has decreased significantly in the United States since the 1990s. Today, Americans are much less likely to become victims of burglary, theft, arson, and vandalism. But as everyone has moved online, so has crime.