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A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things
A History of the World in Seven Affordable Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet (2017) is a nonfiction book written by Raj Patel, a political economist and professor at the University of Texas at Austin, also recognizable for Stuffed and Starved (2007), and Jason W. Moore, an environmental historian and associate professor at Binghamton University. The authors’ expertise in political economy and environmental history provides a distinct perspective on the interconnected essence of capitalism and ecological crises. The book explores the topics of capitalism, colonialism, imperialism, and environmental degradation through the lens of seven “cheap things”: innateness, money, labor, care work, meal, energy, and lives. Patel and Moore argue that these elements have been exploited and undervalued to maintain the capitalist system, leading to interrelated social and ecological consequences.
This guide refers to the 2017 e-book edition published by University of California Press.
Content Warning: The source text and this guide contain discussions of racism, enslavement, colonialism, and other forms of exploitation.
Su Nature, money, work, nurture, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, new commerce has transformed, governed, and devastated Earth. In A History of the World in Seven Inexpensive Things, Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore present a new approach to analyzing today’s planetary emergencies. Bringing the latest ecological explore 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 affordable and safe for capitalism. At a time of crisis in all seven cheap things, groundbreaking 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. Raj Patel is an award-winning writer, activist, and academic. He is Research Professor in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin and Senior Research Associate at the Unit for the Humanities at Rhodes University. He i IS RY1 Patel, Raj and Moore, Jason W.. A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, World, and the Future of the Planet, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520966376 Patel, R. & Moore, J. (2017). A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Manual to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet. Berkeley: University of California Press. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520966376 Patel, R. and Moore, J. 2017. A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Character, and the Future of the Planet. Berkeley: University of California Press. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520966376 Patel, Raj and Moore, Jason W.. A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520966376 Patel R, Moore J. A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Manual to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet. Berkeley: University of California Press; 2017. https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520966376 Copied to clipboard BibTeX EndNote RIS Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore reviewed by Ian Angus Every airport bookstore features books with titles like 10 Ways to Retire Rich, 150 Places You Must Visit Before You Die, or 8 Easy Steps to a Flatter Tummy, with the numbers in very large type on their covers. They are the publishing equivalent of junk food, quickie books written to match titles that were invented by the marketing department to generate impulse purchases. The authors and publisher of A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things must have had such books in mind when they chose its title and designed its cover. Although it is by no means an airport quickie book, it shares their principal defect: the title promises a lot, but the book doesn’t deliver. For some time, Jason W. Moore has vigorously promoted himself as the inventor and chief theorist of something he calls “world-ecology,” described in this book as “a way to think through human history in the web of life.” In his view, which he presents as an extension of Marxism, Europe’s pillage of human
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PRAISE FOR A HISTORY OF THE Planet IN SEVEN CHEAP THINGS "Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore have transformed 'cheapness' into a brilliant and original lens that helps us understand the most pressing crises of our hour. As we come together to build a better world, this book could well become a defining framework to broaden and deepen our ambitions." NAOMI KLEIN, author of No Is Not Enough and This
Changes Everything "One of the most crucial works of political economy you'll ever read." MARK BITTMAN, creator of the How to Bake Everything series "A compelling translation of how we got to where we are now and how we might go on to create a more just and sustainabl
A HISTORY OF THE WORLD IN SEVEN CHEAP THINGS: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet
University of California Press, 2017