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The world is wealthier than ever, yet the gap between rich and poor is getting bigger. Jeremy Seabrook summarises his celebrated work on the meaning of povertym, drawing on the experience of poor people in both rich and poor societies. He concludes that the opposite of poverty is not wealth but sufficiency. the relatively poor majority of the world's people do not aim to be rich but to be safe. Economic growth will never overcome the problems that it is largely responsible for creating. This is a call for radical thinking about the way we live.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1904456669
ISBN13:9781904456667
Release Date:September 2007
Publisher:New Internationalist
Length:144 Pages
Weight:0.35 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 4.5" x 7.1"
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Sobering
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
I don't know how objective the writing is, but the general picture of world poverty produced by this book makes it painfully important. Generation after generation the world's poor receive a lot of lip service but little if any substantive assistance. If anything, they are subjected to extremely repressive economic measures inflicted as a result of globalization, trade deals like NAFTA... Read this and Gore Vidal's "Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace". Makes you proud of America (not).
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