This Is Hell!

Money in the public interest / Steven Pinker doesn't understand global poverty.


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Geographer Lavinia Steinfort examines the potential of creating new, public money in the people’s interest. Lavinia wrote the essay "The Power of Public Finance for the Future we Want" for the Transnational Institute's State of Power 2019 report. / Anthropologist Jason Hickel explains what Bill Gates and Steven Pinker don't understand about global poverty. Jason wrote the post "A letter to Steven Pinker (and Bill Gates, for that matter) about global poverty" at his site. We talked with Jason in June 2018 about his book The Divide.
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