The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions by Jason Hickel

The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions

Jason Hickel

368 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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· The richest eight people control more wealth than the poorest half of the world combined. · Today, 60 per cent of the world’s population lives on less than $5 a day. · Though global real GDP has nearly tripled since 1980, 1.1 billion more peop...

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