The lie of global prosperity : how neoliberals distort data to mask poverty and exploitation / by Se...
The lie of global prosperity : how neoliberals distort data to mask poverty and exploitation / by Se...
The lie of global prosperity : how neoliberals distort data to mask poverty and exploitation / by Seth Donnelly.
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Publisher
New York : Monthly Review Press, [2019]
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G 2019/4728
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Language
English
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Physical content
119 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Introduction: a new millennium? -- Part one. Global poverty today. Problems with the World Bank's poverty metric ; Other metrics and dimensions of global poverty ; Conclusion to Part one -- Part two. Going beyond statistics to the dynamics of imperialism. Causes and consequences of the neoliberal ph...
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Publisher
New York : Monthly Review Press, [2019]
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
[2019]
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Summary
"This book deconstructs the assumption that global poverty has fallen dramatically, and lays bare the spurious methods of poverty measurement and data on which the dominant prosperity narrative depends. Here is carefully researched documentation that global poverty-and the inequalities and misery that flourish within it-remains massive, afflicting...
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The lie of global prosperity : how neoliberals distort data to mask poverty and exploitation / by Seth Donnelly.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 102-113) and index.
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G 2019/4728
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74VKV5gN0QQy
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV5gN0QQy
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ISBN
9781583677650 paperback
1583677658 paperback
9781583677667 hardcover
1583677666 hardcover
DDC
339.46091724
MMS ID
991024270113102626
