Expulsions : brutality and complexity in the global economy /

Sassen, Saskia,

Expulsions : brutality and complexity in the global economy / Saskia Sassen. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (298 pages) : illustrations.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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 Sassen. They are more accurately understood as a type of expulsion --



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Economics--Sociological aspects.
Economic development--Social aspects.
Economic development--Moral and ethical aspects.
Capitalism--Social aspects.
Equality--Economic aspects.


Electronic Books.

HM548 / .E978 2014