Edition |
First American edition. |
Description |
344 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
Note(S) |
"First published [in 2017] by The Random House Group Ltd in Great Britain under the title The Divide : A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions." -- Verso. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Preface. Beginnings -- Part one. The divide -- The development delusion -- The end of poverty...has been postponed -- Part two. Concerning violence -- Where did poverty come from? A creation story -- From colonialism to the coup -- Part three. The new colonialism -- Debt and the economics of planned misery -- Free trade and the rise of the virtual senate -- Plunder in the 21st century -- Part four. Closing the divide -- From charity to justice -- The necessary madness of imagination. |
Summary |
Global inequality doesn't just exist; it has been created |
Subject(S) |
Equality.
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Globalization.
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ISBN |
9780393651362 (hardcover) |
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0393651363 (hardcover) |
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