Capitalism in the web of life: ecology and the accumulation of capital
β Scribed by Jason W. Moore
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Year
- 2015
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 250 KB
- Edition
- 1. publ
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1781689032
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β¦ Synopsis
Finance. Climate. Food. Work. How are the crises of the twenty-first century connected? In Capitalism in the Web of Life , Jason W. Moore argues that the sources of today's global turbulence have a common cause: capitalism as a way of organizing nature, including human nature. Drawing on environmentalist, feminist, and Marxist thought, Moore offers a groundbreaking new synthesis: capitalism as a "world-ecology" of wealth, power, and nature. Capitalism's greatest strength--and the source of its problems--is its capacity to create Cheap Natures: labor, food, energy, and raw materials. That capacity is now in question. Rethinking capitalism through the pulsing and renewing dialectic of humanity-in-nature, Moore takes readers on a journey from the rise of capitalism to the modern mosaic of crisis. Capitalism in the Web of Life shows how the critique of capitalism-in-nature--rather than capitalism and nature--is key to understanding our predicament, and to pursuing...
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