#  HL90CR: Narrative of Global Inequality 

 





 Semester:   Fall 

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 Year offered:  2017 

 

 

 

 **Instructor:** [Paul K. Adler](mailto:padler@fas.harvard.edu)  
**Meeting time:** Wednesday, 3-5

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“More than one billion people in the world live on less than a dollar a day.” “For the past thirty years development policy has been dominated by the paradigm of export-led growth.” Sentences such as these epitomize how often we think of global economic inequalities in terms of abstracted concepts. In this course, we will highlight another analytical lens: people's lives. Using films, novels, memoirs, and more, this course examines the history of attempts by everyone from sweatshop workers to presidents to create a more equitable global economy from the 1940s to the present.