163. Capitalism and Nature -- Alyssa Battistoni

163. Capitalism and Nature -- Alyssa Battistoni

Alyssa Battistoni joins me to discuss her new book Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature. Capitalist theory generally describes nature as a "free gift." If gifts are already free, why does capitalism have to claim that nature is a "free gift"? And why does capitalism keep declaring that nature is "worth" some billions or trillions of dollars? Alyssa and I discuss the tragic, yet comic, misunderstanding of nature by capitalism, and other ways to think about nature besides the economic.

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125. Graeber's Debt Chapter 7, Honor and Degradation

125. Graeber's Debt Chapter 7, Honor and Degradation

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124. The Early Quakers -- Kate Peters (English Revolution)

124. The Early Quakers -- Kate Peters (English Revolution)

Kate Peters, author of Print Culture and the Early Quakers, joins me to discuss the Quakers, the last of the radical groups we're covering the English Revolution series. You can hear about how the Qua...

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123. Debt Discussion 6: Graeber as Grand Theorist with Fuad Musallam

123. Debt Discussion 6: Graeber as Grand Theorist with Fuad Musallam

In this debt discussion, Fuad and I discuss Chapter 6 of Debt, "Games with Sex and Death," and especially the way that Graeber is writing in the grand theory tradition of anthropology. Fuad also taugh...

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122. The Fifth Monarchists -- Bernard Capp (English Revolution)

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121. Graeber's Debt Chapter 6, Games with Sex and Death

121. Graeber's Debt Chapter 6, Games with Sex and Death

Graeber explains human economies, economies in which money can only be used to shore up social relations, and can't be used to buy things - to the utter confusion of anthropologists trying to buy thin...

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119. Debt Discussion 5: The Sterility of Economics with James K. Galbraith

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118. The Films of Preston Sturges -- Stuart Klawans

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