Description
| Product ID: | 9781781689028 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Capitalism in the Web of Life |
| Subtitle: | Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital |
| Authors: | Author: Jason W. Moore |
| Page Count: | 336 |
| Subjects: | Environmental economics, Environmental economics, Economic systems and structures, Environmentalist thought and ideology, Economic systems & structures, Environmentalist thought & ideology |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating The relationship between capital and ecology in the longue duree Integrating both social and historical factors, this radical analysis of the development of capitalism reveals the ever-deepening relationship between capital and ecology 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 the politics of liberation in the century ahead. |
| Imprint Name: | Verso Books |
| Publisher Name: | Verso Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2015-08-18 |
