美国新书！继《人类简史》之后的又一力作！从七件廉价品中看世界历史：关于资本主义、自然与星球未来的指南
自然
Nature
钱
Money
工作
Work
关怀
Care
食物
Food
能源
Energy
生命
Lives
这七件东西形成了我们的世界
但在资本主义历史之下
如今都变成了廉价的东西
These seven things make our world.
But in the history of Capitalism (or "Capitalocene"),
they have become cheap things
我想向关心人类与地球未来的人
（尤其是中国的学者和知识分子）
隆重介绍一本新书
I'd like to introduce an important new book of our century
to people who care about the future of humanity and our planet.
由衷祝贺世界知名学者Raj Patel和Jason W. Moore的新书《从七件廉价品中看世界历史：关于资本主义、自然与星球未来的指南》问世。本书出版于2017年10月。
A hearty congratulations to Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore for their just-published book: A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and The Future of The Planet. (Published in October, 2017).
本文会介绍这本新书，并分享第一章“介绍（Introduction）”的部分内容（英文）。
Here we'll introduce this new book, and share an excerpt of the Introduction.
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If you'd like to explore further, reply 【CHEAP7】to our media account to 1) listen to both authors talk about cheap things on the latest eposode of the "Secret Ingredient" NPR Podcast; 2) get a free PDF copy of the Introduction (43 pages; and 3) get the link to purchase the book at University of California Press.
我认为此书是继《人类简史》后的又一部重量级历史著作。相比《人类简史》，它提出了理解历史进程和从根源上解决危机的办法。期待此书早日能翻译成中文，促进人类改变未来。
I think this book is a masterpiece following Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. Unlike Sapiens, this book proposes new ways to understand the process of history and radical solutions to crisis. I hope that this book can be translated into Chinese soon and facilitate the change of humanity towards future.
翻译：裘成
Translation: Cheng Qiu
自然，金钱，工作，关怀，食物，能源，生命：这七件东西形成了我们的世界，并将塑造世界的未来。现代商业通过让它们变得廉价，已转变、统治和毁坏了地球。在《从七件廉价品中看世界历史：关于资本主义、自然与星球未来的指南》一书中，Raj Patel 和 Jason W. Moore用新的方法分析了今日的星球危机。通过前沿的生态研究，结合殖民、原住民抗争、奴隶叛乱以及其他叛乱和起义的历史，Patel 和 Moore 证实：在整个历史上，危机总是促使了新的战略——把世界变得廉价和安全，从而利于资本主义。如今，这七件廉价品全部都存在危机，我们迫切需要创新与系统性的思维。本书提出了全新彻底理解——以及恢复——我们这个二十一世纪动荡星球的办法。
Nature, money, work, care, food, energy, and lives: these are the seven things that have made our world and will shape its future. In making these things cheap, modern commerce has transformed, governed, and devastated Earth. In A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things, Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore present a new approach to analyzing today’s planetary emergencies. Bringing the latest ecological research together with histories of colonialism, indigenous struggles, slave revolts, and other rebellions and uprisings, Patel and Moore demonstrate that throughout history, crises have always prompted fresh strategies to make the world cheap and safe for capitalism. At a time of crisis in all seven cheap things, innovative and systemic thinking is urgently required. This book proposes a radical new way of understanding—and reclaiming—the planet in the turbulent twenty-first century.
Raj Patel is an award-winning writer, activist and academic. He is a Research Professor in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas, Austin and a Senior Research Associate at the Unit for the Humanities at Rhodes University. He is the author of Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System and The Value of Nothing.
Jason W. Moore teaches world history and world-ecology at Binghamton University, and is coordinator of the World-Ecology Research Network. He is the author of several books, including Capitalism in the Web of Life: Ecology and the Accumulation of Capital, and numerous award-winning essays in environmental history, political economy, and social theory.
“Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore have transformed ‘cheapness’ into a brilliant and original lens that helps us understand the most pressing crises of our time, from hyper-exploitation of labor to climate change. They demystify the systemic forces that have gotten us here, showing how our various struggles for justice are connected. As we come together to build a better world, this book could well become a defining framework to broaden and deepen our ambitions.”—Naomi Klein, author of No Is Not Enough and This Changes Everything
“It’s remarkably rare that authors manage to find a really useful new lens through which to view the world—but Patel and Moore have done just that, writing an eye-opening account that helps us see the startling reality behind what we usually dismiss as the obvious and everyday.”—Bill McKibben, author of Radio Free Vermont: A Fable of Resistance
“World system histories of ambition and scope go back at least to Ibn Khaldun, and in recent years important contributions have been made by William McNeill, Immanuel Wallerstein, Andre Gunder Frank, Jared Diamond, and Giovanni Arrighi. Moore and Patel here make an exciting addition to that field. They combine a socioeconomic vision with a strong ecological basis, so that history is now explained as people interacting not just with other people but with Earth’s biosphere, a crucial element of the story. The result is a compelling interpretation of how we got to where we are now, and how we might go on to create a more just and sustainable civilization. It’s a vision you can put to use.”—Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the Mars trilogy
“What a relief to read a bold, grand narrative of European colonialism/capitalism and its destruction of the environment as well as reducing whole civilizations to enslavement, impoverishment and ruin—just what is needed at this time to contextualize the many granular studies we now have access to. Patel and Moore have provided not only an elegantly written and insightful narrative, but also a path to imagine a noncapitalist future.”—Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, author of An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States
“With its rich theoretical language and wealth of empirical details A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things is an important critique of neoliberal economics and much of the radical discourse on ecology. It is a powerful, well-argued, passionate counterpoint to the belief that we have transitioned to a post-capitalist world.”—Silvia Federici, author of Caliban and the Witch
“This is a highly original, brilliantly conceptualized analysis of the effects of capitalism on seven key aspects of the modern world. Written with verve and drawing on a range of disciplines, A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things is full of novel insights.”—Marion Nestle, author of Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health
“This book is a remarkable achievement: it makes the history of capitalism from Columbus to climate change into a page-turner. If you’ve been wondering how we got into this mess, what care work has to do with ecological crisis, why racism is intertwined with capitalism at the roots, Patel and Moore are the guides you need.”—Sarah Jaffe, author of Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt
节选
本书的介绍部分节选。
An excerpt of the introduction.
本书介绍了“世界-生态”，一种用于分析生命网络中的人类历史的视角与方法。
The book introduces WORLD-ECOLOGY, a perspective and approach to analyse human history in the web of life.
并且，提出了替代廉价品的可能方案。
It also proposes the "Alternatives of Cheap Things".
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1）聆听NPR（美国全国公共广播电台）的主持人与两位作者的对话节目（1小时长，全英文）；
2）免费取得第一章“介绍（Introduction）”的英文PDF文档（共43页）；
3）取得加州大学出版社的英文书购买链接。
If you'd like to explore further, reply 【CHEAP7】to our media account to 1) listen to both authors talk about cheap things on the latest eposode of the "Secret Ingredient" NPR Podcast;
2) get a free PDF copy of the Introduction (43 pages; and
3) get the link to purchase the book at University of California Press.
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