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A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things

A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet

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A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things

By: Raj Patel, Jason W. Moore
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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. 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.

©2017 Raj Patel and Jason Moore (P)2017 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Anthropology Economics Human Geography Social Sciences Sociology World Capitalism Africa Imperialism Socialism Latin America Colonial Period Taxation Future World

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Great writing for the grander ideas that are woven together. It isn't often that I find many thinkers pulling together references from different disciplines for a larger perspective on capitolism's shaping of history. However, I only wish there was more to it's vision for the future than it's exquisite discriptions of the past to the current.

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I have read several books on the ecology and economy of modern times, and this is by far the most comprehensive and the most eye-opening analytical summary of the matter.

Comprehensive and eye-opening

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Simone de Beauvoir, Karl Marx, Roland Barthes and so many other philosophers, activists, and revolutionaries are reading this from beyond the grave and applauding! Just fantastic!

Brilliant!

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Great analysis as well as a vision for a better world. Offers answers and solutions.

Need to listen!

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LOVE THE CONTENT! His voice makes me sleepy though, so I had to hear it again.

LOVE but different reader

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Worth the listen fascinating and make me think of aspects of history I didn’t even think of before

Great work and fascinating subjects

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This book is an astounding and well organized synthesis of history - environmental & social (political, economic & cultural) - that exposes the unifying threads of unsustainable exploitation that has today brought us to a precipice. Nothing is really cheap; unacknowledged costs are often high. Where in the past, as resources are depleted, capitalists have increased the level of coercive force applied, or moved on to rape more virgin lands, the authors note that with climate change, the usurpation of the commons now extends to the very atmosphere upon which all life depends. And in the conclusion they offer some very initial ideas of alternative structures. A lot to ponder, a dramatic call to face our current reality honestly, as well as to develop alternatives immediately. Critical reading!

A remarkable exposé & synthesis of the Ponzi scheme that capitalism is and always has been.

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This comes off as a child complaining that they have to go to school and blaming their parents. There is a very strong disconnect from reality and it shows in the chapters.

Author doesn't know what capitalism is.

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