![]() The idea caught the imagination of citizens of wealthy nations, not only confirming their superiority ethics and efficiency as advanced economies, but offering them the opportunity to exercise Christian charity. He begins by exposing the concept of development in the Third World, a rabbit pulled from a hat to pad out the inaugural address of the American president Harry Truman in 1949. Hickel, an anthropologist at the London School of Economics, addresses his topic systematically. He does this in a lively narrative over 300 pages. He brings the reader up to speed with regard to current neo-liberal strategies and their accompanying propaganda to further the dominance of rich nations, or better said their transnational corporations. He has marshalled the newest facts, analyses, and theories concerning economic inequality between rich and poor nations, destroying current myths about development. ![]() Instead Hickel has written a brilliant and lengthy compendium of the structural inequalities maintaining, even increasing, underdevelopment in poor countries. The book is neither brief, nor is it a guide. The subtitle of Jason Hickel’s book “The Divide” is something of an understatement. ![]()
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