Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Dark Designs -- On Reading Classical Political Economy -- Summary -- 1 Primitive Accumulation -- Introduction -- Commodity Production and the Social Division of Labor -- The Household as an Agent of Production -- A Simple Schematic of the Social...

The purpose of this book is to call for a wholesale rethinking of the way that markets treat both the labour and natural resources on which we all depend. It reveals how economic analysis justifies self-defeating policies that encourage wanton use of the environment and callous abuse of the...