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This neoliberalist emphasis on reducing the
exclusion of the poor tends to obscure the crucial issue of how poverty is
created and reproduced and demonstrates a fundamental lack of under-
standing of the fact that __poverty does not emerge because of exclusion but
because of poor people’s differential incorporation into market and economic
and political processes.__
Capitalist Philanthropy and Hegemonic Partnerships
Behrooz Morvaridi
the nineteenth-century French thinker Ernest Renan, knew, in addition to the usual Greek and Latin, Hebrew, Aramaic (Syriac), and Arabic. In his attack on Averroes, he expressed the famous idea that logic excludes—by definition—nuances, and since truth resides exclusively in the nuances, it is “a useless instrument for finding Truth in the moral and political sciences.”
Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
While in the previous models the correlation between risks and opportunities created a relative stability, the active offloading of social risk to society, as we shall see, has created a condition of generalized precarity from which the labor-market insiders—those who are skilled and have well-paying jobs—are not sheltered. Precarity is the social question of the twenty-first century.
Capitalism on Edge
Albena Azmanova;
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