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Expulsions : brutality and complexity in the global economy

Income inequality, displaced and imprisoned populations, destruction of land and water: today’s dislocations cannot be understood in the usual terms of poverty and injustice, Saskia Sassen argues. They are more accurately understood as expulsions—from professional livelihood, from living space, from the very biosphere that makes life possible.
Print Book, English, 2014
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2014
1 recurso en línea (298 páginas : ilustraciones)
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Introduction: the savage sorting
Shrinking economies, growing expulsions
The new global market for land
Finance and its capabilities
Dead land, dead water
Conclusion: at the systemic edge