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scission

Through its operations the scission between wealth and poverty turns into a self-reinforcing pincer.

—p.62 Chapter 2: Inequality, Poverty, Indebtedness (33) by Richard Dienst
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vicissitudes

What might appear to each of us as vicissitudes of fate and fortune are actually organized by more durable relationships and processes that usually remain opaque.

—p.46 Chapter 2: Inequality, Poverty, Indebtedness (33) by Richard Dienst
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bulwark

it seems long ago that anybody trusted the state to serve as a bulwark against the global system

—p.39 Chapter 2: Inequality, Poverty, Indebtedness (33) by Richard Dienst
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structural adjustment programs

we can see how this “structural adjustment” of public finances has played out rather badly in most places where the Washington Consensus was implemented, not least in Washington itself

—p.28 Chapter 1: Once in a Lifetime (7) by Richard Dienst
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Washington Consensus

we can see how this “structural adjustment” of public finances has played out rather badly in most places where the Washington Consensus was implemented, not least in Washington itself

—p.28 Chapter 1: Once in a Lifetime (7) by Richard Dienst
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