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

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE The Divide by Jason Hickel In The Divide, Jason Hickel brilliantly lays it out, layer upon layer, until you are left reeling with the outrage of it all. - Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut Economics* The richest eight people control more wealth than the poorest half of the world combined. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description A groundbreaking new examination of global inequality, and how to fix it________________Theres no understanding global inequality without understanding its history. In The Divide, Jason Hickel brilliantly lays it out, layer upon layer, until you are left reeling with the outrage of it all. - Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut EconomicsThe richest eight people control more wealth than the poorest half of the world combined.Today, 60 per cent of the worlds population lives on less than $5 a day.Though global real GDP has nearly tripled since 1980, 1.1 billion more people are now living in poverty.For decades we have been told a story- that development is working, that poverty is a natural phenomenon and will be eradicated through aid by 2030. But just because it is a comforting tale doesnt make it true. Poor countries are poor because they are integrated into the global economic system on unequal terms, and aid only helps to hide this.Drawing on pioneering research and years of first-hand experience, The Divide tracks the evolution of global inequality - from the expeditions of Christopher Columbus to the present day - offering revelatory answers to some of humanitys greatest problems. It is a provocative, urgent and ultimately uplifting account of how the world works, and how it can change for the better. Notes Regular Guardian contributor Jason Hickel analyses the timeline of first world exploitation of third, proposing that the problem is inherently political, obfuscated by current thinking on aid and development, and calls for political solutions. Author Biography Jason Hickel is an economic anthropologist, Fulbright Scholar and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is originally from Eswatini (Swaziland) and spent a number of years with migrant workers in South Africa, writing about exploitation and political resistance in the wake of apartheid. He has authored three books, including most recently The Divide- A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions. He writes regularly for the Guardian, Al Jazeera and Foreign Policy, serves as an advisor for the Green New Deal for Europe and sits on the Lancet Commission for Reparations and Redistributive Justice. He lives in London. Review Theres no understanding global inequality without understanding its history. In The Divide, Jason Hickel brilliantly lays it out, layer upon layer, until you are left reeling with the outrage of it all. -- Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut EconomicsIn this iconoclastic book, Jason Hickel shakes up the prevailing paradigm of "development" at its root. He not only exposes the fatal flaws in the standard model of development but also shows how the "development aid" given to the poor countries in order to promote that erroneous model is vastly outweighed by the resource transferred to the rich countries through an unfair global economic system. Many of the proposals that Hickel makes for institutional reform and intellectual re-framing may sound "mad", as he himself acknowledges, but history has taught us that mad ideas have the habit of becoming respectable over time. This book will radically change the way in which you understand the workings of the global economic system and the challenges faced by poor countries trying to advance within it. -- Ha-Joon Chang, University of Cambridge, author of 23 Things They Dont Tell You About Capitalism and Economics: The Users GuideThis is a book that if our world is to have any chance of meeting the challenges of the 21st century, people need to read. It challenges so much received wisdom via a well-argued, flowing prose that guides you through economic history, international trade, colonialism, politics and power, and the limits to growth debate. In setting out the reality of global inequality and its tangled roots, Hickel, matador-like, destroys the statistical pivots used by official agencies and unpicks their portrayal of an optimistic account of the state of global poverty and inequality. * Open Democracy *With passion and panache, Jason Hickel tells a very different story of why poverty exists, what progress is, and who we are. The Divide is myth busting at its best. The West has controlled the rest through colonization, coups, trade and debt. Poor countries are made poor by this; but a dramatic change is coming. -- Danny Dorling, author of Inequality and the 1%Hickel masterfully weaves together the most radical currents in political and economic thought to plot the course of global development… I appreciated his ability to translate such a disorienting amount of complex information into a clear, compelling narrative. Hickel is one of the few academics taking responsibilities as a public intellectual seriously, willing to ask difficult questions that challenge and inform our political discourse. * Bright Green * Promotional A groundbreaking new examination of global inequality, and how to fix it Review Text Theres no understanding global inequality without understanding its history. In The Divide , Jason Hickel brilliantly lays it out, layer upon layer, until you are left reeling with the outrage of it all. Review Quote Theres no understanding global inequality without understanding its history. In The Divide , Jason Hickel brilliantly lays it out, layer upon layer, until you are left reeling with the outrage of it all. Promotional "Headline" A groundbreaking new examination of global inequality, and how to fix it Details ISBN1786090031 Author Jason Hickel Year 2018 ISBN-10 1786090031 ISBN-13 9781786090034 Media Book Publication Date 2018-05-17 Pages 368 Publisher Cornerstone Imprint Windmill Books Subtitle A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 305 Format Paperback Short Title The Divide Language English UK Release Date 2018-05-17 AU Release Date 2018-05-17 NZ Release Date 2018-05-17 Narrator Sarah Ridgeway Illustrator Quentin Blake Birth 1927 Affiliation Lecturer, University of Fort Hare Position Professor Qualifications J.D. Alternative 9781473539273 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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