One’s own experience can be a terrible guide, when it comes to trying to understand capitalism. What should we examine ...

Ever since Eric Williams published his book Capitalism and Slavery, which demonstrated to those more inclined to weigh evidence rather than ideology that slavery was a crucial prop to the Industrial ...

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“Heretics always remain tied to the church. To break out, what you do is nail your theses on the door, turn around and ...

NMAHMAI copy Purchased from the NMAH Library Endowment. Foreword / by Marion Nestle -- Introduction : Do foodies need to understand capitalism? -- How our capitalist food system came to be -- Food, a ...

Sianne Ngai’s Theory of the Gimmick continues her project of looking at how aesthetic categories shape labor, value, and everyday experience. Sianne Ngai. (Courtesy of Harvard University Press) Over ...

No book has done more than Capital to explain the way the world works. Only a few centuries old, capitalism’s unprecedented mode of producing for human needs and generating wealth shapes present and ...

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Passive investment strategies could destabilize markets, as economic shifts threaten household financial security.

We currently have the technology to capture carbon from the air, which could deal with our excess co2 if we had mostly green energy. I think we can deal with waste heat once we have carbon controlled.