Global Magic: Technologies of Appropriation from Ancient Rome to Wall Street

by Alf Hornborg

Book Overview

Modern thought on economics and technology is no less magical than the world views of non-modern peoples. This book reveals how our ideas about growth and progress ignore how money and machines throughout history have been used to exploit less affluent parts of world society. The argument critically explores a middle ground between Marxist political ecology and Actor-Network Theory.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349932485
• ISBN13: 9781349932481
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 201 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"