Killing Fields of Inequality
Killing Fields of Inequality Inequality is not just about the size of our wallets. This book shows that inequality is literally a killing field, with millions of people dying premature deaths because…
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Killing Fields of Inequality
Inequality is not just about the size of our wallets. This book shows that inequality is literally a killing field, with millions of people dying premature deaths because of it. It is a socio-cultural order which, for most of us, reduces our capabilities to function as human beings, our health, our dignity, our sense of self, as well as our resources to act and participate in the world.
Even when they survive inequality, millions of human lives are stunted by the humiliations and degradations of inequality linked to gender, race and ethnicity, and class.But this book is about experiences of equalization too, highlighting moments and processes of equalization in different These lethal effects of inequality operate not only in the poor world, but also, and increasingly, in rich countries, as Therborn demonstrates with data ranging from the US, the UK, Finland and elsewhere.