Global magic : technologies of appropriation from ancient Rome to Wall Street
Alf Hornborg
- New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
- x, 201 p. ; 22 cm.
- Palgrave studies in anthropology of sustainability .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Modern thought on economics and technology is no less magical than the world views of non-modern peoples. This book reveals how our ideas about growth and progress ignore how money and machines throughout history have been used to exploit less affluent parts of world society.
9781137567864
2015034895
Economic anthropology Technology--Anthropological aspects Technology and civilization