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The Political Origins of Inequality (Hardcover)
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The Political Origins of Inequality (Hardcover)
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Inequality is the defining issue of our time. But it is not just a
problem for the rich world. It is the global 1% that now owns fully
half the world's wealth-the true measure of our age of inequality.
In this historical tour de force, Simon Reid-Henry rewrites the
usual story of globalization and development as a story of the
management of inequality. Reaching back to the eighteenth century
and around the globe, The Political Origins of Inequality
foregrounds the political turning points and decisions behind the
making of today's uneven societies. As it weaves together insights
from the Victorian city to the Cold War, from US economic policy to
Europe's present migration crisis, a true picture emerges of the
structure of inequality itself. The problem of inequality,
Reid-Henry argues, is a problem that manifests between places as
well as over time. This is one reason why it cannot be resolved by
the usual arguments of left versus right, bound as they are to the
national scale alone. Most of all, however, it is why the level of
inequality that confronts us today is indicative of a more general
crisis in political thought. Modern political discourse has no
place for public reason or the common good. Equality is yesterday's
dream. Yet the fact that we now accept such a world-a world that
values security over freedom, special treatment over universal
opportunity, and efficiency over fairness-is ultimately because we
have stopped even trying in recent decades to build the political
architecture the world actually requires.Our politics has fallen
out of step with the world, then, and at the every moment it is
needed more than ever. Yet it is within our power to address this.
Doing so involves identifying and then meeting our political
responsibilities to others, not just offering them the selective
charity of the rich. It means looking beyond issues of economics
and outside our national borders. But above all it demands of us
that we reinvent the language of equality for a modern, global
world: and then institute this. The world is not falling apart.
Different worlds, we all can see, are colliding together. It is our
capacity to act in concert that is falling apart. It is this that
needs restoring most of all.
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