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In the wake of the global financial crisis, and ongoing savage government cuts across the world, Garry Leech addresses a pressing and necessary topic: the nature of contemporary capitalism, and how it inherently generates inequality and structural violence. Drawing on a number of fascinating case studies from across the world - including the forced displacement of farmers in Mexico, farmer suicides in India, and deaths from preventable and treatable diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa, as well as the unsustainable exploitation of the planet's natural resources - Leech provocatively argues that global capitalism constitutes a form of genocide, and that this genocide is inherent in any social system that adheres to the logic of capital. Essential and eye-opening the book questions the legitimacy of a system that inevitably results in such large-scale human suffering, while going beyond mere critique to offer a more egalitarian, democratic and sustainable global alternative.

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Book category Books in English Economics, finance, business & management Economics Development economics & emerging economies

• Full title: Capitalism
• Subtitle: A Structural Genocide
• Author: Garry Leech
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192
• EAN: 9781780321998
• ISBN: 1780321996
• ID: 04455251
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Weight: 270 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 137 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 26. April 2012

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