CHAPTER 2
Economics Through a Wider Lens
Today, millions of people no longer accept suffering and injustice as just God’s will or the result of mysterious, unalterable, economic laws. All over the world, people are alarmed about the health and environmental effects of industrialization seemingly run amok. They’re concerned about trade globalization rules that are lowering wages and worker protections earlier taken for granted in the West. They’re aware that half the world still lives in poverty and hunger, and that even in the wealthy United States ...
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