The Wealth of (Some) Nations: Imperialism and the Mechanics of Value Transfer

“This is simply the most significant book published on the political economy of imperialism in the twenty-first century, written by the foremost scholar of global imperialism today. Cope lays bare the fundamental structural contradiction in contemporary global capitalism: the pervasive class divisions which divide the Global North from South and are indelibly imprinted in the historical legacy of Western imperialism.”