1f Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum (London: Portobello Books, 2013).
2f James A. Robinson and Daron Acemoglu, Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity and Poverty (London: Profile Books, 2013); Paul Collier, The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing and What Can Be Done about It (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008).
3f Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time (1944; Boston: Beacon Press, 2001), 3.
4f Niall Ferguson, Colossus: The Rise and Fall of American Empire (London: Penguin, 2009); Gideon Rachman, Zero-Sum World: Politics, Power and Prosperity After the Crash (New York: Atlantic Books, 2010); Dambisa Moyo, Winner Takes All: China’s Race for Resources and What It Means for Us (London: Penguin, 2013); Ian Morris, Why the West Rules—For Now: The Patterns of History and What They Reveal about the Future (London: Profile Books, 2010).
5f The economist Simon Kuznets famously argued in 1955 for the inverted-U curve: the idea that inequality will rise as an economy develops, but then fall again over time as it matures.
6f Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014).
7f R. H. Tawney, Equality (1931; London: Unwin Books, 1964).
8f Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Origin and Basis of Inequality among Men (1755).
9f There is, as it happens, a “right to development” too, put forward by Kéba Mbaye and adopted by UN declaration in 1986. But who remembers or very much cares about this?
10f Gunnar Myrdal, The Challenge of World Poverty: A World Anti-Poverty Program in Outline (New York: Pantheon Books, 1970).
11f Kate Wilkinson and Richard Pickett, The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better (London: Allen Lane, 2009).
12f Russell Brand, Revolution (London: Century Books, 2014). In fact, it is Thomas the butler from Downton Abbey who had it right: “Not a revolution but justice for the majority,” as he put it in the first episode of season 5.
13f Peter Singer, The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty (New York: Picador, 2009).
14f Jeffrey Sachs, The End of Poverty: How We Can Make It Happen in Our Lifetime (London: Penguin, 2005).
15f William Easterly, The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007).
16f Dambisa Moyo, Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is Another Way for Africa (London: Penguin, 2010).
17f Angus Deaton, The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013).
18f Abhijit V. Banerjee and Esther Duflo, Poor Economics: Barefoot Hedge-Fund Managers, DIY Doctors and the Surprising Truth about Life on Less Than $1 a Day (London: Penguin, 2012).
19f Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Andrei Shleifer, and Robert Vishny, “The Quality of Government” (Working Paper No. 6727, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA, September 1998).
20f Simeon Djankov, Edward L. Glaeser, Rafael La Porta, Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, and Andrei Schleifer, “The New Comparative Economics” (Working Paper No. 9608, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA, April 2003), 6.
21f Erik S. Reinert, How Rich Countries Got Rich . . . and Why Poor Countries Stay Poor (London: Constable & Robinson, 2008).
22f David Landes, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations: Why Some Are So Rich and Some So Poor (New York: W. W. Norton, 1998).
23f Robert Kaplan, “The Coming Anarchy: How Scarcity, Crime, Overpopulation, Tribalism, and Disease Are Rapidly Destroying the Social Fabric of Our Planet,” The Atlantic, February 1, 1994.
24f Sheri Berman, The Primacy of Politics: Social Democracy and Making of Europe’s Twentieth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).
25f Kristian Stokke and Olle Törnquist, eds., Democratization in the Global South: The Importance of Transformative Politics (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan), 2013.
26f Richard Sandbrook, Marc Edelman, Patrick Heller, and Judith Teichmark, Social Democracy in the Global Periphery: Origins, Challenges, Prospects (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
27f Thomas L. Friedman, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005).
28f A. C. Pigou, Wealth and Welfare (London: Macmillan, 1912).
29f Daniele Archibugi, The Global Commonwealth of Citizens: Toward Cosmopolitan Democracy (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008).
30f This is not an idle point; the Indian business lobby, for example, is becoming steadily more Americanised.