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

Author: Raj Patel, Jason W. Moore

Narrator: Simon Mattacks

Unabridged: 6 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/17/2017

Categories: Nonfiction, Science

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 Raj Patel

Raj Patel, a fellow at Food First, is a visiting scholar at the UC Berkeley Center for African Studies. He has worked for the World Bank, WTO, and the UN, and he's also been tear-gassed on four continents protesting them. He is the author of The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Maria

Capitalocene — The Age of Chickens Holocaust Capitalocene is designed to nudge us away from evolutionary determinism, and from a sense of collective culpability for climate change, towards an understanding of the way in which the destruction of nature has largely been the result of an economic system......more

Goodreads review by Maria

Capitalocénico — A Era do Holocausto dos Frangos Chegámos ao Capitalocénico — uma era geológica onde evolução e destruição coexistem, ambas motivadas pela busca despótica do lucro, que não olha a meios para concretizar fins! “A vida inteligente futura saberá que estivemos cá porque alguns seres humano......more

Goodreads review by Anna

Some authors aren’t intimidated by scale, and these two surely fall into that category. In A History of the World in 7 Cheap Things, Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore pursue a project of enormous magnitude, tracing the history of modern capitalism from its origin to the present day. Through the lens of “c......more

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