Earth Capital : The Long History of Capitalism and Its Aftermath (Hardcover)

Foreword by Thomas Piketty?? Earth Capital: Long Live Eco-History!

Introduction
When Does the Future Begin?
Thinking About Time, Appropriating the Future: A Global Perspective
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Part I. Green Growth and Forced Labour, 12th-19th Centuries
1: Indispensable Labour, Forced Labour
Too Many People?
Where’s the Capital?
A Law for the Masters
Global Economic Growth

2: Energy Resources in Pre-Industrial Economies
Wood and Coal
Wind and Seawater
Rivers Like No Others
Animal and Human Power

3: Crops and Material Culture
Wheat: The Wrong Right Answer
Hybridisation or Perhaps Not: Pasta
Many Rice Varieties, Not Just in Asia
Afro-American Maize
“Noble” Cane: Our Sweet Tooth, a Rod for Their Backs

4: A Dangerous Mix: Environment, Institutions and Inequality
Little Ice Age and the Collapse of Agrarian Empires
The Price is Right! Regulating Markets
Meat: A Scarce Food
Part I Conclusion: Why Europe? The Power of Violence and Constraint

Part II. The Productivist Regime and the Great Acceleration, 1870-1970
5: The Age of Capital
The Architecture of Competition
What the Modernisation of Agriculture Really Means
Creative Destruction? Chemicals in Food Production
Smog in the Global North, Flogging in the South: A New Energy Equilibrium

6: Seeds, Plants, and Genetics
Hybrid Maize: Miraculous Yields and Economic Dependence
Rice and Floods
Wheat: Standardization at the Expense of Nutrition

7: Transmissible Diseases and Food: Meat
Meat for All, but at What Cost?
Swine Trichinosis: Protectionism or Health Crisis?
An Epidemic without Borders: Bovine Tuberculosis
Conclusion: Epizootic to Zoonotic, the Pendulum Swings

8: Capital, Neo-Colonialism and Famine
Capital and Markets: Allegro Ma Non Troppo
Nouveaux Riches and Permanent Outsiders
Colonial Famines
Part II Conclusion

Part III. From the 1970s to 2050: High Globalisation, Collapse and the World After
9: Neoliberalism and the Euphoria of Speculation
Das Kapital Moves South
Energy Sources in the Age of Globalisation
Ever-Increasing Yields: The End of Illusions

10: Hunting for Seed Varieties vs. Genetic Selection
From Hybrids to GMOs
Seeds and Intellectual Property: Breaking the Link
Breeding Wipes Out Everything in Its Path
Why Can’t We Live Without Meat?
The Boomerang Effect: Mad Cow Disease, Avian Flu and Covid
Babette’s Feast

11: Towards the World After
An Ideal World in the Past?
Green Taxation vs. Inequalities
Should We Get Out of Capitalism?
Put an End to Speculation
Seeds and Intellectual Property: Breaking the Link
Restoring the Centrality of Labour

Conclusion: Just Institutions vs. Just Societies