![]() ![]() Hickle (2017) begins with a discussion of “development”, conceived by the Truman administration as the solution to Third World hunger and poverty. The history of inequality the creation of inequality. ![]() However I think Hickle’s discussion of alternatives is disappointing, and I want to suggest more effective options. It disputes the conventional faith that Third World poverty is being eliminated. It deals with the history of brutal colonial grabbing, the creation of global inequality and the way Neoliberal doctrine enables continued polite plunder today. This book is excellent in its forthright account of the way the global economy has been structured by and for Western elites and consumers. The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions by Jason Hickle. ![]()
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