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A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Raj Patel
By (author) Jason W. Moore
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:336
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 155
Category/GenreWorld history
ISBN/Barcode 9781760640460
ClassificationsDewey:303.44
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Black Inc.
Imprint Black Inc.
Publication Date 2 April 2018
Publication Country Australia

Description

Nature, Money, Work, Care, Food, Energy, and Lives. Nature, Money, Work, Care, Food, Energy, and Lives. These are the seven things that have made our world and will continue to shape its future. By making these things cheap, modern commerce has controlled, transformed, and devastated the Earth. In A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore present a new approach to analyzing today's planetary emergencies. Bringing the latest ecological research together with histories of colonialism, indigenous struggles, slave revolts, and other uprisings, Patel and Moore demonstrate how throughout history, crises have always provided fresh opportunities to make the world cheap and safe for capitalism. At a time of crisis for all these seven cheap things, innovative systemic thinking is urgently required. This book proposes a radical new way of understanding-and reclaiming-the planet in the turbulent twenty-first century.

Author Biography

Raj Patel is an award-winning writer, activist, and academic. He is a research professor in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and a senior research associate at the Unit for the Humanities at Rhodes University. He is the author of Stuffed and Starved- The Hidden Battle for the World Food System and The Value of Nothing- How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy.