Capitalism Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/section/capitalism/ a magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:16:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.publicbooks.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-favicon-2-300x300.png Capitalism Archives - Public Books https://www.publicbooks.org/section/capitalism/ 32 32 Is the World Enough? https://www.publicbooks.org/is-the-world-enough/ Thu, 28 Mar 2024 15:00:38 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=55616 Is our relation to the earth mainly a story of scarcity, of insatiable wants curbed by a finite planet?

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]]> Oil and Injury in Los Angeles https://www.publicbooks.org/oil-and-injury-in-los-angeles/ Tue, 17 Oct 2023 15:00:36 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=53744 The city’s ports may be physically located in the imperial core—inside the barricades of the USA—but their tendrils span the globe.

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]]> The Frankfurt Book Fair and Its Cupboards https://www.publicbooks.org/the-frankfurt-book-fair-and-its-cupboards/ Thu, 12 Oct 2023 15:00:26 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=53820 “In order to understand the multi-dimensionality of the global book industry, we urgently need to move beyond standard methods alone.”

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]]> Five Books on Labor and Ecology https://www.publicbooks.org/five-books-on-labor-and-ecology/ Mon, 25 Sep 2023 15:00:18 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=53358 Our scorching planetary age results from the conjoined forces of colonial extractivism, fossil capitalism, and postcolonial developmentalism.

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]]> 5 Books on the Politics of Indonesian Labor https://www.publicbooks.org/5-books-on-the-politics-of-indonesian-labor/ Tue, 16 May 2023 15:00:18 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=52074 People are familiar with how big the Japanese and South Korean economies are, but Indonesia is a rising power in Asia with a large labor force, and it’s very rarely being talked about.

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]]> “Let Us Gather Together” https://www.publicbooks.org/let-us-gather-together/ Tue, 02 May 2023 15:00:58 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=51906 Capital violently forces dispossessed people into markets, workplaces, and prisons. But such forced meetings could end capitalism itself.

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]]> Car Creditocracy: An Interview with Julie Livingston & Andrew Ross https://www.publicbooks.org/car-creditocracy-an-interview-with-julie-livingston-andrew-ross/ Tue, 04 Apr 2023 15:00:30 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=51727 “If you are a car owner, you are red meat for whoever wants to prey upon you, whether it is police, auto lenders, or state agencies.”

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]]> “Work More, Consume Less”: How Austerity Coerces https://www.publicbooks.org/capital-order-economic-austerity-fascism/ Thu, 17 Nov 2022 16:00:05 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=50784 The true purpose of austerity is to permanently and structurally extract resources from the many to the few.

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]]> How to Profit from Climate Change https://www.publicbooks.org/how-to-profit-from-climate-change/ Wed, 09 Nov 2022 16:00:22 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=50798 How did capitalism waste the crucial decades when climate change could have been halted? By fixating on—and downplaying—“risk.”

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]]> Taking Our Time: How Australian Universities Measure Academic Work https://www.publicbooks.org/how-australian-universities-measure-academic-work/ Fri, 16 Sep 2022 15:00:19 +0000 https://www.publicbooks.org/?p=49882 “Who gets to decide what is valuable and necessary work for an academic today?”

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