Shock Doctrine on Russia was enlightening. This book looks great too.- “Therborn’s book is a panoramic survey of inequality across the globe in its various dimensions: theoretical, historical, empirical. Like other recent works, Killing Fields looks at the causes of the dizzying rise in economic inequality we’ve seen in recent decades in most of the developed world. But its greatest strength lies in the succinct but compelling answers it provides to three of the most important inequality-related questions: First: what, exactly, do we mean by “inequality”? Second, what is inequality doing to us? And finally, why should we care about it? … “Inequality kills,” states Therborn in the book’s first sentence. Consider these statistics: Between 1990 and 2008, life expectancy of white§ American men declined by three years, and low-educated white American women saw their life expectancy decline by five years. … The restoration of capitalism to the former Soviet Union is associated with a stunning 4 million excess deaths there.”
Posted on: Thu, 06 Mar 2014 01:16:35 +0000
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