A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet by Rajeev Charles Patel, Jason W. Moore

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

Rajeev Charles Patel, Jason W. Moore

328 pages first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction economics history politics challenging informative slow-paced

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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 W...

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