About the Book: Violent Saviours (B PB): The West, the Rest, and Capitalism
Without Consent
POWERFUL FINANCIAL TIMES, 2025 BOOK OF THE YEAR
INNOVATIVE AND EXHILARATING Angus Deaton, winner of the Nobel Prize in
Economics
Prosperity cannot be forced, it can only be freely chosen.
For centuries, powerful nations have claimed they were bringing progress to the
world-through empire, intervention and control. From the conquest of the
Americas to colonisation across Africa and Asia, expansion was justified by the
wealth it generated.
But rarely did it come with consent.
Spanning four hundred years, acclaimed economist and author of The White