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

Patel, Raj/ Moore, Jason W./ Mattacks, Simon (Narrator)

ISBN 10: 1543660533 / ISBN 13: 9781543660531

Published by Brilliance Audio, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet
• Publisher: Brilliance Audio
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1543660533
• ISBN 13: 9781543660531
• Binding: CMD
• Condition: Brand New

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

RAJ PATEL 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, Austin and a Senior Research Associate at the Unit for the Humanities at the university currently known as Rhodes University (UHURU), South Africa. He can be heard co-hosting the fortnightly food politics podcast The Secret Ingredient with Mother Jones' Tom Philpott, and KUT's Rebecca McInroy. He is currently working on a ground-breaking documentary project about the global food system with award-winning director Steve James.