<div dir="ltr">My understanding of global poverty, based on the important work of Jason Hickel, is that any meaningful decrease in global poverty is attributable solely to the urbanization of China. This is an old article, but this analysis has been recently incorporated into a book:<div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/views/2013/04/15/truth-about-extreme-global-inequality">https://www.commondreams.org/views/2013/04/15/truth-about-extreme-global-inequality</a></div><div><br></div><div>This is a more recent interview about the book, very clear, 35 minutes:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://thisishell.com/interviews/1006-jason-hickel">https://thisishell.com/interviews/1006-jason-hickel</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 8:19 PM Brussel, Morton K <<a href="mailto:brussel@illinois.edu">brussel@illinois.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">



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Not quite a coherent story from David Harvey, although absorbing to listen to him. I suppose one should purhase his book to see if he fills in the holes of his verbal statements here. E.g., has global poverty not regressed? Despite increased inequality. Perhaps
 I’m lacking in understanding the fundamentals of economics. 
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<div>On Jun 11, 2018, at 9:14 AM, David Green via Peace-discuss <<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" target="_blank">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div>Standard Harvey but always informative, especially re China:</div>
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