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History of the World in Seven Cheap Things:
A Guide to Capitalism, Nature and the Future of the Planet
by Raj Patel and Jason W Moore
(Verso, £16.99)
ANY book comparing capitalism to a flesh-eating disease that sells your bones as a fertiliser, invests its profit to grow a crop and then sells the harvest to tourists who come to visit your headstone, is not talking cheap.
This history of the world pulls few punches in describing how capitalism has transformed and devastated our planet since the 1400s by making nature, money, work, care, food, lives and energy “cheap.”
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