The book is written in a highly readable style and is accessible to a non-expert. In The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions, Jason Hickel attacks our contemporary ‘progress narrative’, arguing that global poverty is both an urgent issue and a direct product of the political order. If it can be said that the global system ain’t broke, then there is no need to fix it. That view has far-reaching political implications. It is now often thought that extreme poverty is disappearing. The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions. This is a well-written and highly readable diagnosis of the current causes and state of global inequality, writes John Picton, and an optimistic manifesto for change. In The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions, Jason Hickel challenges the progress narrative that has shaped perceptions of global poverty, arguing that there is a widening gulf that is a direct product of the political order.
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