A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things

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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. Best Download [ A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things ] By [ Raj Patel ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr buy it for your friends who don t know what capitalism is, why it sucks, or how race, gender, and climate crisis play into the whole mess.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 cheapening, capitalism is sliced sidelong, exposing the sum for its parts The authors argue that the modern world has been made through seven cheap things Nature, Money, Work, Care, Food, Energy, an 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 cheapening, capitalism is sliced sidelong, exposing the sum for its parts The authors argue that the modern world has been made through seven cheap things Nature, Money, Work, Care, Food, Energy, and Lives However, cheap isn t a price tag rather, it is a set of strategies to control a wider web of life 3 By devaluing these things on a mas...I definitely think the author s message has a lot of truth in it but I just didn t get the approach Some of the seven cheap things got me hooked while I had a hard time getting the main points on others.Life is too short for bad books This book is a long drawn out look at history using what should be 7 clever categories Instead the book reads like someone s dull thesis.It s easier for most people to imagine the end of our planet than to imagine the end of capitalism We need an intellectual state shift to accompany our new epoch This book is a thought provoking history of how Capitalism ate our planet and our lives and the resistance that happened in each stage and area The authors argue we should call this age the Capitalocene specifically not thegeneric Anthropocene I was particularly struck by the chapters on how capitalism requires cheap labor, It s easier for most people to imagine the end of our planet than to imagine the end of capitalism We need an intellectual state shift to accompany our new epoch This book is a thought provoking history of how Capitalism ate our planet and our lives and ...Patel and Moore present a provocative and highly readable guide to the early centuries of capitalism, showing how its then radically new way of relating to Nature remains at the root of world political economy today As for a guide to the future, however, the authors do little beyond posi...Can t unread what I have read.Excellent book providing an innovative view of the history of the development of capitalism and the forces that are required to maintain capitalism Some very good recommendations for a way forward.Vigorously recommend.Couldn t get past the first chapter It seems like a screed about the inherent evil of capitalism written in a dense and smug style.

A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things
  • English
  • 27 November 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 328 pages
  • 0520293134
  • Raj Patel
  • A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things