EAN: 9781509533237

PROFIT - MARK STOLL GEBUNDEN

Profit -- getting more out of something than you put into it -- is the original genius of homo
sapiens  who learned how to unleash the energy stored in wood  exploit the land  and refashion
ecosystems. As civilization developed  we found more and more ways of extracting surplus value
from the earth  often deploying brutally effective methods to discipline people to do the work
needed. Historian Mark Stoll explains how capitalism supercharged this process and traces its
many environmental consequences. The financial innovations of medieval Italy created trade
networks that  with the European discovery of the Americas  made possible vast profits and
sweeping cultural changes  to the detriment of millions of slaves and indigenous Americans  the
industrial age united the world in trade and led to an energy revolution that changed lives
everywhere. But when efficient production left society awash in goods  a new sort of capitalism
predicated on endless individual consumption  took its place. This story of incredible
ingenuity and villainy begins in the Doge's palace in medieval Venice and ends with Jeff Bezos
aboard his own spacecraft. Mark Stoll's revolutionary account places environmental factors at
the heart of capitalism's progress and reveals the long shadow of its terrible consequences.

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