Expulsions : brutality and complexity in the global economy /

Soaring income inequality and unemployment, expanding populations of the displaced and imprisoned, accelerating destruction of land and water bodies: today's socioeconomic and environmental dislocations cannot be fully understood in the usual terms of poverty and injustice, according to Saskia...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Sassen, Saskia (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Massachusetts : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014.
Subjects:	Economics > Sociological aspects. Economic development > Social aspects. Economic development > Moral and ethical aspects. Capitalism > Social aspects. Equality > Economic aspects.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: the savage sorting
Shrinking economies, growing expulsions
The new global market for land
Finance and its capabilities: crisis as systemic logic
Dead land, dead water
Conclusion: at the systemic edge.