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Development will only ever make sense if we begin to change the rules that produce poverty in the first place – if we begin to dismantle the architecture of upward redistribution that defines the world system.
In 1877 and 1878, during the worst years of the first drought, they shipped a record 6.4 million tons of Indian wheat to Europe rather than relieve starvation in India. During the period from 1875 to 1900, Indian grain exports increased from 3 million to 10 million tons per year.
Tocqueville is a free trader, but unlike today’s free traders, he doesn’t think free trade means immunity from government regulations. Why? Because he saw that people are at risk of death and poor health if corporations are not regulated.
The Unknowers
Linsey McGoey
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