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Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed, governed, and devastated Earth. InA History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Raj Patel and JasonW. Moore present a new approach to analyzing today’s planetary emergencies. Bringing the latest ecological research together with histories of colonialism, indigenous struggles, slave revolts, and other rebellions and uprisings,Patel and Mooredemonstrate that throughout history, crises have always prompted fresh strategies to make the world cheap and safe for capitalism. At a ti"