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  Expulsions


    Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy


      Saskia Sassen
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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 life possible.

This hard-headed critique updates our understanding of economics for the
twenty-first century, exposing a system with devastating consequences
even for those who think they are not vulnerable. From finance to
mining, the complex types of knowledge and technology we have come to
admire are used too often in ways that produce elementary brutalities.
These have evolved into predatory formations---assemblages of knowledge,
interests, and outcomes that go beyond a firm's or an individual's or a
government's project.

Sassen draws surprising connections to illuminate the systemic logic of
these expulsions. The sophisticated knowledge that created today's
financial "instruments" is paralleled by the engineering expertise that
enables exploitation of the environment, and by the legal expertise that
allows the world's have-nations to acquire vast stretches of territory
from the have-nots. /Expulsions/ lays bare the extent to which the sheer
complexity of the global economy makes it hard to trace lines of
responsibility for the displacements, evictions, and eradications it
produces---and equally hard for those who benefit from the system to
feel responsible for its depredations.

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