Licensed Larceny : Infrastructure, Financial Extraction And The Global South

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Licensed larceny is best viewed as a proxy for how for how effectively elites have constructed institutions that extract value from the rest of society. For inequality is not just a problem of poverty and the poor; it is as much a problem of wealth and the rich. The provision of publicservices is one area which is increasingly being reconfigured to extract wealth upward to the one per cent, notably through so-called Public Private Partnerships (PPPs). The push for PPPs is not about building infrastructure for the benefit of society but about constructing new subsidies thatbenefit the already wealthy. It is less about financing development than developing finance. Understanding and exposing these processes is essential if inequality is to be challenged. But equally important is the need for critical reflection on how the wealthy are getting away with it. What does thewealth gap suggest about the need for new forms of organizing by those who would resist elite power?


  • | Author: Nicholas Hildyard
  • | Publisher: Manchester University Press
  • | Publication Date: Jun 17, 2016
  • | Number of Pages: 124 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Hardcover
  • | ISBN-10: 178499426X
  • | ISBN-13: 9781784994266
Author:
Nicholas Hildyard
Publisher:
Manchester University Press
Publication Date:
Jun 17, 2016
Number of pages:
124 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Hardcover
ISBN-10:
178499426X
ISBN-13:
9781784994266