Nicholas Hildyard

Licensed Larceny

Infrastructure, Financial Extraction and the Global South

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Inequality is not just a problem of poverty and the poor; it is as much a problem of wealth and the wealthy. The provision of public services is one area which is increasingly being reconfigured to extract wealth upward to the 1%, notably through so-called Public Private Partnerships (PPPs). The push for PPPs is not about building infrastructure fo

Produktdetails

• Manchester Capitalism
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 139mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 192g
• ISBN-13: 9781784994273
• ISBN-10: 1784994278
• Artikelnr.: 45059289

Autorenporträt

Nicholas Hildyard works with the research and solidarity group, The Corner House, UK

Inhaltsangabe

1 Mise
en
scène: the injustices of wealth 2 A study in financial extraction: Lesotho's national referral hospital 3 Infrastructure as financial extraction 4 Extraction in motion
infrastructure
as
asset
class 5 Infrastructure corridors, frontier finance and the vulnerabilities 6 Reflections for activism