| Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy Subjects: Economics -- Sociological aspects; Economic development -- Social aspects; Economic development -- Moral and ethical aspects; Capitalism -- Social aspects; Equality -- Economic aspects; 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. Sassen Saskia : Saskia Sassen is Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and co-chair of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. |