How Capitalism Works - one more view

Appearing in The Guardian recently, this review of yet another book on Capitalism, which the authors refer to as a ruinous economic system that benefits a minority class.

A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, by Patel & Moore

Patel and Moore’s essential argument is that the history of capitalism, and therefore of our current mess, can be usefully viewed through the lens of cheapness. (An earlier, more knottily theoretical work of eco-Marxism by Moore, Capitalism in the Web of Life, argues that “cheap nature” is as central an imperative of capitalism as cheap labour.) The seven “things” of their misleadingly clickbaity title are not objects or consumer products, so much as conceptual categories: nature, money, work, care, food, energy and lives. 

More grist for the mill.