Book Title:Living Well at Others’ Expense ISBN-13:978-1509525621 Author:Stephan Lessenich Publisher:Polity Press Guideline Price:£20.00Imagine a fictional society, Dogland, which consists solely of dogs kept as pets in US homes. In Living Well at Others’ Expense, Stephan Lessenich uses Dogland to illustrate not only the stark inequalities in today’s world, but also the fact that many of us in the rich developed world are complicit in perpetuating this injustice. But in Living Well at Others’ Expense, Lessenich shows that the problem lies much deeper, in a system expressly designed to create wealth for some at the expense of others. The Global North, through border security, visa regulations and immigration quotas, recruits “skilled” labour and keeps out “unskilled” and “unproductive” migrants, who are increasingly being vilified as trouble makers, terrorists and criminals. Confronted with the unsustainability of the economic model that underpins our prosperity, the developed world is reacting with a spasm of populism, protectionism, and xenophobia.

Source: The Irish Times April 13, 2019 05:03 UTC