THE NATURE OF MASS POVERTY JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1979 PART II Chapter 1: How Poverty Is Now Explained (Cont.) The quality and character of government is a function of the income of the people by which it is supported. Poverty is both a cause and a consequence of what Gunnar Myrdal …
THE NATURE OF MASS POVERTY JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1979 PART I Preface by JKG This book had its origins almost two decades ago in India. In those years, the early sixties, the United States had a large and costly program of assistance to Indian agriculture. Its purpose was to help increase Indian …
THE REAL ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS WHY POVERTY, NOT AFFLUENCE, IS THE ENVIRONMENT’S NUMBER ONE ENEMY JACK M. HOLLANDER UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS 2003 PART 1I Introduction: A Crisis of Pessimism (Cont.) The environmental legacy of Vietnam Although the influence of science on the environmental movement remained strong during the 1960s and 1970s, the influence of politics …
THE REAL ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS WHY POVERTY, NOT AFFLUENCE, IS THE ENVIRONMENT’S NUMBER ONE ENEMY JACK M. HOLLANDER UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS 2003 PART 1 Preface The draft of this book was completed barely a month before the tragic events of September 11, 2001, thrust an entirely new set of problems and priorities onto the …
STOLEN HARVEST THE HIJACKING OF THE GLOBAL FOOD SUPPLY VANDANA SHIVA SOUTH END PRESS 2000 PART 1 Introduction Over the past two decades every issue I have been engaged in as an ecological activist and organic intellectual has revealed that what the industrial economy calls “growth” is really a form of theft from nature and …
THE BOTTOM BILLION WHY THE POOREST COUNTRIES ARE FAILING AND WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT PAUL COLLIER OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 2007 PART VII PART 5: THE STRUGGLE FOR THE BOTTOM BILLION Chapter 11: An Agenda for Action We have been through the costs that the countries of the bottom billion are inflicting …
THE CREATION OF WORLD POVERTY TERESA HAYTER Pluto Press in association with Third World First Second edition 1990 PART VIII Chapter 12: Workers and wages The problem of finding workers for mines and plantations was a continuous one. As long as workers have access to their own means of production they will not work for …
THE BOTTOM BILLION WHY THE POOREST COUNTRIES ARE FAILING AND WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT PAUL COLLIER OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 2007 PART VI PART 4: THE INSTRUMENTS Chapter 8: Military Intervention After Iraq it is difficult to arouse much support for military intervention. For me this chapter is the toughest in the book because …
THE CREATION OF WORLD POVERTY TERESA HAYTER Pluto Press in association with Third World First Second edition 1990 PART VII Chapter 9: Markets and the Destruction of Industries The overseas activities of the British obtained for them the raw materials, in particular cotton, that were essential for the expansion of industry. It also provided …
THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES JEAN GIONO WOOD ENGRAVINGS BY MICHAEL McCURDY CHELSEA GREEN PUBLISHING COMPANY 1985 PART II At that time Bouffier was about to plant beeches at a spot some twelve kilometers from his cottage. In order to avoid traveling back and forth – for he was then seventy-five – he planned to …
