Global Magic: Technologies of Appropriation from Ancient Rome to Wall Street (Palgrave Studies in Anthropology of Sustainability)

by Alf Hornborg (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2016

  $118.24

  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.