The Rise of the Offshore World

In this Conflicted Conversation, Ian Kumekawa (a fellow of Harvard University and a lecturer at MIT) talks about his book Empty Vessel: The Story of the Global Economy in One Ship.

Ian explains:

The offshore global economy: where loopholes, ships and responsibility slip beyond ordinary jurisdiction

From Little Toot to rusting barges: how industrial capitalism lost its confident postwar world

Sweden’s socialist shipyards, private tax dodges, and the strange birth of the Vessel

Containerisation’s hidden cost: how global trade hollowed out Manhattan’s working waterfront

The Falklands War, Thatcherism, and the private infrastructure behind imperial sovereignty

New York’s floating prison: mass incarceration meets offshore legal ingenuity

Wall Street goes offshore onshore: banks, deregulation and International Banking Facilities

Neoliberalism, legality and injustice: when the modern economy makes the immoral lawful

Visit Ian’s website: www.iankumekawa.com

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