The Divide: Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets by Jason Hickel

The Divide: Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets

Jason Hickel with Jonathan Cowley (Narrator)

10 hours, 45 minutes first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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Sixty percent of humanity―some 4.3 billion people―live in debilitating poverty. The standard development narrative suggests that alleviating poverty in poor countries is a matter of getting the internal policies right, combined with aid from rich ...

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