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

The Divide: Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets

Jason Hickel

352 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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Global inequality doesn’t just exist; it has been created. More than four billion people—some 60 percent of humanity—live in debilitating poverty, on less than $5 per day. The standard narrative tells us this crisis is a natural phenomenon, hav...

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