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From one of the world’s leading economists, a grand narrative of the century that made us richer than ever, yet left us unsatisfied  Before 1870, humanity lived in dire poverty, with a slow crawl of invention offset by a…

The 1978 publication of Edward Said’s Orientalism unsettled the world. Over two decades earlier Aimé Césaire had famously spoken of the boomerang effect of colonization, which dehumanized both the colonizer…