| Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital Contributor(s): Moore, Jason W. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1781689024 ISBN-13: 9781781689028 Publisher: Verso OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Economy - Political Science | Public Policy - Environmental Policy - Nature | Natural Resources |
| Dewey: 333.7 |
| LCCN: 2015013430 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.19 lbs) 336 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |