[Peace-discuss] Chris Hedges interviews David Harvey

[David Green]

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:

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2013/04/15/truth-about-extreme-global-inequality

This is a more recent interview about the book, very clear, 35 minutes:

https://thisishell.com/interviews/1006-jason-hickel





On Mon, Jun 11, 2018 at 8:19 PM Brussel, Morton K <brussel at illinois.edu>
wrote:

> 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.
>
> --mkb
>
> On Jun 11, 2018, at 9:14 AM, David Green via Peace-discuss <
> peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>
> Standard Harvey but always informative, especially re China:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hgszeNb8wU
>
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