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PPP revisions are well known for discriminating against poor people. PPP moves relative to the price of consumer goods across whole economies. But people __living at national poverty lines do not consume such a broad range of goods; on the contrary, they spend around 70 per cent of their income on food.__ And it just so happens that the price of food has gone up dramatically since PPP was last revised in 2005, relative to the prices of everything else, which means that while most people are able to buy more with their dollars, poor people are actually able to buy less.

The Divide

Jason Hickel

Good governance – whether on the part of public sector bodies, businesses, NGOs or many of the ‘flex’ organisations discussed earlier – is, then, both a normative discourse and a set of technologies. The latter renders areas of potential political conflict, or struggles over different kinds of ‘public’ interest, into more neutral decisional spaces, offering ‘a technical fix that will insulate policy choices from the passions, dangers and seductions of politics’ (Clarke, 2005b: 217).

Publics, Politics and Power

Janet Newman and John Clarke

It might very well be that there is nothing on this earth which is not somehow affected by capital, but that is not the same as saying that everything has been subsumed under capital or that capital has taken hold of all dimensions of social life. The social as well as natural world is shaped by innumerable forces which do not derive from the logic of capital – not only because these forces have been able to keep the logic of capital at bay but also because capital is not a supervillain seeking to rule the entire world.

Mute Compulsion

Søren Mau

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