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Knowledge and Global Inequality Since 1800

Interrogating the Present as History

This study highlights the monopolization and exclusion from high-value knowledge in analysing divergent and, recently, partially convergent income trends across 200-odd years of the global capitalist economy. A southern lens interrogates this history, in the process showing how developing command over knowledge creation sheds light on the middle-income trap. 

Overall, it shows a new way of looking at global capitalist economic history, highlighting the creation of, command over and exclusion from knowledge. This forces us to analyse the role of the subjective or agential element in making history; a subjective element that, however, always works from within and transforms existing structures and processes.

Table of contents
  1. Global Inequality
    Dev Nathan
  2. Knowledge and Its Enclosure
    Dev Nathan
  3. Adverse Specialization and Divergence, 1820–1950
    Dev Nathan
  4. Limited Convergence, 1950 to the Present
    Dev Nathan
  5. The Middle-Income Trap
    Dev Nathan
  6. Building the Knowledge Economy
    Dev Nathan
  7. Conclusion: Reforming the Knowledge Economy
    Dev Nathan
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