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The lie of global prosperity : how neoliberals distort data to mask poverty and exploitation / by Seth Donnelly

Author
Donnelly, Seth
Published
New York : Monthly Review Press, [2019]
Physical Description
119 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

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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 phase of imperialism ; Claim no easy victories, tell no lies.
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 the majority of the world's population. Donnelly goes further to analyze just how global poverty, rather than being reduced, is actually reproduced by the imperatives of capital accumulation on a global scale. Just as the global, environmental catastrophe cannot be resolved within capitalism, rooted as it is in contemporary mechanisms of exploitation and plunder, neither can human poverty be effectively eliminated by neoliberal "advances.""--
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ISBN
9781583677650 paperback
1583677658 paperback
9781583677667 hardcover
1583677666 hardcover
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 102-113) and index.
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