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In his recent book, Mark Duffield (2007:19) draws a stark contrast between “insured life” in the global North, and “non-insured surplus life” in the global South. The goal of transnational development intervention, he argues, is not to extend northern-style social protections to the population of the global South, but to keep the latter in their place—ensconced in their nations, communities and families, where they must be self-sufficient, and not make demands.
To Make Live or Let Die? Rural Dispossession and the Protection of Surplus Populations
Tania Murray Li
we know that aid works much better in the presence of good governance (just as we know that more often than not it goes to places with bad governance).
The Dictator's Handbook
de Mesquita Bueno
Stiglitz, as one of the few neoclassical economists who has periodically attempted to intellectually refute neoliberalism over the course of his career, should therefore be regarded as someone who had significant credibility tied up in expressing his conviction that the demise of neoliberalism was at hand.
Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste
Philip Mirowski
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