Alyssa Battistoni, Member (2022–23) in the School of Social Science, reflects on her book Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature in an interview that traces how “free gifts of nature” help explain what capitalism uses but doesn’t price—from ecological processes to pollution framed as an “externality.”
The University of Washington Press has published
Revolutionary Jews from Spinoza to Marx: The Fight for a
Secular World of Universal and Equal Rights by Jonathan Israel
in June 2021:
“In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries a small
but...
Karl Marx linked the structure of production to the formation of
institutions. According to Marx, religion is like any other social
institution in that it is dependent upon the economic realities of
a given society, i.e., it is an outcome of its...
