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How capitalism transformed the natural world

Books & the Arts / In her new book, Alyssa Battistoni explores how nature came to be treated as a supposedly cost-free supplement of capital accumulation. Kohei Saito Anew kind of politics is taking ...
Something much deeper than the price of eggs was at work when voters re-elected President Trump last year. Most Americans were unhappy with the country’s direction; they still are. Last month, 59 ...
If capitalism is such a natural outcome of human nature, why were systematic violence and draconian laws necessary to establish it? And if greed is the primary motivation for human beings, how could ...
The rise of capitalism as an economic and social system has also coincided with its rapid transformation of nature. Wage labor and investment in the hope of return has dammed rivers, bored through ...
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