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“Uncommon Wealth is a very powerful reminder that the legacies of the British imperial and global pasts are not merely cultural but also, though less obviously, political economic. The overall argument is that the British Empire had an important role in creating a kind of globalized capitalism which was profoundly undemocratic and destructive of national development of not only the United Kingdom’s former colonies, but more generally too. It essentially links what happened in the UK in the recent past—for example, privatization and outsourcing, the offshoring of finance to tax havens—to policies that were pioneered for decolonised parts of the world. The argument is that the UK today is living under a financial political regime long known to many of its former colonies.”
The Best Politics Books of 2022, recommended by David Edgerton
