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Author Hickel, Jason, 1982- author.

Title The divide : global inequality from conquest to free markets / Jason Hickel.

Publisher New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2018.

ISBN 9780393651362 (hardcover)
0393651363 (hardcover)



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 Oregon Branch Adult  330.9 Hic    DUE 05-03-24  ---
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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.
Globalization.
ISBN 9780393651362 (hardcover)
0393651363 (hardcover)