Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy

by Saskia Sassen

Book Overview

Soaring income inequality and unemployment, expanding populations of the displaced and imprisoned, accelerating destruction of land and water bodies: today's socioeconomic and environmental dislocations cannot be fully understood in the usual terms of poverty and injustice, according to Saskia Sassen. They are more accurately understood as a type of expulsion--from professional livelihood, from living space, even from the very biosphere that makes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674599225
• ISBN13: 9780674599222
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.4"