In 1500, living standards were roughly equivalent between European countries and the rest of the world.
‘It is easy to assume that the divide between rich and poor nations has always existed: that is a natural feature of the world’, he tells us (p.3), before tearing down economic orthodoxies which have long encumbered development thinking. Hickel masterfully weaves together the most radical currents in political and economic thought to plot the course of global development, from its colonial origins to the rise of post-war industrial planning and the neoliberal era of privatisation, deregulation, and consolidating corporate power. Benjamin Brown reviews “The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions” by Jason Hickel (pictured), Published in paperback by Windmill, May 2018.Īfter the millions ploughed into ‘international development’ over the past seventy years, why it that global inequalities not only persist, they are getting worse? In The Divide, anthropologist Jason Hickel provides a combative and analytically rigorous explanation, dismantling the myths that continue to cloud our thinking around global poverty.
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