Ep. 32 – Saskia Sassen, Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy

Published: Dec. 1, 2015, 8:18 p.m.

This week we read Saskia Sassen’s Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy, an exploration of the underlying systems of logic that drive displacement, resource extraction and, ultimately, inequality. Sassen discusses the financial tools, strategies and “instruments” by which corporations and nations amass land, wealth and resources, from the securitizing of subprime mortgages leading […]