Award-winning author will discuss whether solving climate change is impossible in a capitalism-driven economy.

I argue that capitalism’s system of value constitutes nature in opposition to waged human labor: The instigation of the wage relation as a core relation between human beings renders all of nonhuman ...

Modern economies depend on a range of essential inputs that are not fully priced or exchanged in markets. These include ecosystem functions—such as clean air, climate regulation, and biodiversity—as ...

At the core of every social, political, and economic system is a picture of human nature (to paraphrase 20th-century columnist Walter Lippmann). The suppositions we begin with—the ways in which that ...

In her new book, Alyssa Battistoni explores how nature came to be treated as a supposedly cost-free supplement of capital accumulation. Anew kind of politics is taking shape in Japan. This past fall, ...

The report of the Lancet Commission on ‘21st Century Global Threats to Health’ has identified seventeen threats to global health: air pollution, antimicrobial ...

The debate, therefore, should not be reduced to a choice between capitalism and no capitalism. The more important question is what kind of capitalism society is willing to accept. An economy must ...

Disaster capitalism arises when private interests and market logics exploit the aftermath of hurricanes, earthquakes and other extreme events in the Caribbean, deepening existing inequalities.

A conversation with Alyssa Battistoni about the essential and contradictory nature of capitalism to the environment and her new book Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature. The voluminous ...