A history of the world in seven cheap things : a guide to capitalism, nature, and the future of the planet / Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore.

Main entry:

Patel, Raj, author.

Title & Author:

A history of the world in seven cheap things : a guide to capitalism, nature, and the future of the planet / Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore.

Publication:

Description:

xiii, 312 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-299) and index.
Introduction -- Cheap nature -- Cheap money -- Cheap work -- Cheap care -- Cheap food -- Cheap energy -- Cheap lives -- Conclusion.
Library copy: selected for the Multidisciplinary Research Project on "Architecture and/for the Environment", 2017-2019, developed by the CCA with the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed, governed, and devastated 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 rebellions and uprisings, Patel and Moore demonstrate that throughout history, crises have always prompted fresh strategies to make the world cheap and safe for capitalism. At a time of crisis in all seven cheap things, innovative and systemic thinking is urgently required. This book proposes a radical new way of understanding--and reclaiming--the planet in the turbulent twenty-first century"--Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9780520293137 (hardcover alkaline paper)
0520293134 (hardcover alkaline paper)
9780520299931 (paperback)
0520299930 (paperback)
(epub)
9780520966376
electronic book
0520966376

Subject:

Human ecology Economic aspects.
Capitalism.
Écologie humaine Aspect économique.
HISTORY World.
SOCIAL SCIENCE Anthropology Cultural & Social.
SOCIAL SCIENCE Sociology.
Kapitalismus
Sozialgeschichte
Krise
Sicherheit und Ordnung
Massenkonsum
HISTORY / World.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology.

Added entries:

Moore, Jason W., author.
Moore, Jason W. author.

Guide to capitalism, nature, and the future of the planet

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Location: Library main 300018
Call No.: BIB 246178
Status: Available

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