How The Other Half Dies: The Real Reasons For World Hunger
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
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At a time when millions face starvation, Susan George's landmark work How the Other Half Dies: The Real Reasons for World Hunger delivers a searing indictment of the global political and economic systems that manufacture famine rather than prevent it. George argues, with meticulous and unflinching precision, that world hunger is not the product of natural scarcity or overpopulation, but rather the direct consequence of deliberate decisions made by powerful governments, multinational corporations, and international institutions that consistently prioritise profit over human life. A watershed text in the field of political economy and development studies, this work dismantles the comfortable myths perpetuated by Western aid agencies and policymakers, illustrating how food itself has become a weapon of control wielded by the wealthy against the world's most vulnerable populations. George's prose is rigorous yet bracingly accessible, combining hard statistical evidence with incisive moral clarity — a combination that has cemented this book's enduring relevance decades after its first publication. For anyone who has ever wondered why hunger persists in a world of abundance, the answer George presents is as urgent today as it was when she first wrote it.
Author: Susan George
Format: Paperback
Genre: Politics & law
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At a time when millions face starvation, Susan George's landmark work How the Other Half Dies: The Real Reasons for World Hunger delivers a searing indictment of the global political and economic systems that manufacture famine rather than prevent it. George argues, with meticulous and unflinching precision, that world hunger is not the product of natural scarcity or overpopulation, but rather the direct consequence of deliberate decisions made by powerful governments, multinational corporations, and international institutions that consistently prioritise profit over human life. A watershed text in the field of political economy and development studies, this work dismantles the comfortable myths perpetuated by Western aid agencies and policymakers, illustrating how food itself has become a weapon of control wielded by the wealthy against the world's most vulnerable populations. George's prose is rigorous yet bracingly accessible, combining hard statistical evidence with incisive moral clarity — a combination that has cemented this book's enduring relevance decades after its first publication. For anyone who has ever wondered why hunger persists in a world of abundance, the answer George presents is as urgent today as it was when she first wrote it.