Foreword -- Prologue : the planet of the apes hypothesis -- The first power of civilizations -- Colonialism and the transatlantic slave trade -- The fossil fuel revolution -- Corporate capitalism -- Human development -- Epilogue

"Debt as power is a timely and innovative contribution to our understanding of one of the most prescient issues of our time: the explosion of debt across the global economy and related requirement of political leaders to pursue exponential growth to meet the demands of creditors and investors

"Governments across the world are concerned about the future of world order. This original, timely and innovative collection is the first to consider the interconnections between energy, capitalism and the future of world order from the angle of critical political economy. In its wide-ranging...

This article offers a critique of Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nişancioğlu's "How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism". We argue that while all historiography features a number of silences, shortcomings or omissions, the omissions in "How the West Came to Rule" lead to...

Introduction : The Covid-19 pandemic, international political economy and social reproduction / Matt Dow and Tim Di Muzio -- Global power, inequality, and climate change. "A once in a lifetime opportunity": Covid-19 in the age of finance / Richard H. Robbins -- The billionaire boom : capital as...

In Debt as Power, Di Muzio and Robbins present a historical account of the modern origins of capitalist debt by looking at how commercial money is produced as debt in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. They expertly demonstrate their key contention - that debt is a technology...