I loved this book, and I think it’ll be seen to be an essential text for understanding the financial order of the world in the era of ‘decolonisation’ (post WW2). Each chapter is about a certain aspect of the modern world in the afterlife of empire, and how the world was restructured to uphold and reinforce the free market (aka neoliberal capitalism, the ideology that puts profit over people) and further deny people all across the world, not just in the former colonies, their sovereignty and freedoms from oppression. There’s chapters on The State, The Company, The Border, The Debt, The Tax, and The City, alongside the intros & outros, and each chapter uses 2 or 3 case studies from recent history and the contemporary world to illustrate precisely how and why the world seems undeniably fucked, forever rigged in favour of the already supremely wealthy, and how potentially it could change for the better. 

It’s fast paced, dense but understandable, and unrelenting in its critique of imperialism both in history and how it affects, and constructed the world as we see it today. File next to The Shock Doctrine.