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 --