Seth Donnelly's new book The Lie of Global Prosperity: How Neolilberals Distort Data to Mask Poverty and Exploitation deconstructs the assumption that global poverty has fallen dramatically, and lays bare the spurious methods of poverty measurement and data on which the dominant prosperity narrative depends. Donnelly analyzes just how global poverty, rather than being reduced, is reproduced by the imperatives of capital accumulation on a global scale, and since capitalism is rooted in exploitation and plunder, how human poverty cannot be effectively eliminated by neoliberal “advances.”
Donnelly will be in conversation with Pierre Labossiere of the Bay Area-based Haiti Action.
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