Violent Saviors: The West's Conquest of the Rest

A celebrated economist argues that economic development is not really development unless everyone has the right to consent to their own progress

“An innovative and exhilarating read.”—Angus Deaton, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics

A Financial Times Best Book of the Year

For centuries, the developed Western world has exploited the less-developed “Rest” in the name of progress, conquering the Americas, driving the Atlantic slave trade, and colonizing Africa and Asia. Throughout, the West...