[Peace-discuss] Chris Hedges interviews David Harvey

[Brussel, Morton K]

I guess one would have to know how global poverty is determined/measured. Forget about China’s urbanization, how about Asia or Africa or SE Asia? What are the sources of whomever tries tø measure it?

On Jun 11, 2018, at 10:21 PM, David Green <davidgreen50 at gmail.com<mailto:davidgreen50 at gmail.com>> wrote:

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<mailto: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<mailto: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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