Finance, work, weather, food. What are the crises of the 21st century connected? In capitalism in the plot of life, Jason W. Moore argues that the sources of the current global turbulence have a common cause: the exhaustion of capitalism as a way of organizing nature, including human nature. From the great analysis of Braudel's historical capitalism to Wallerstein and Arright, of the recent contributions of environmental political economy and certain feminism readings, Moore offers us an innovative synthesis: capitalism implies a certain type of "world ecology" which implies forms of production and distribution of wealth, power systems and ecosystems made of both human and extrahuman nature.

Under this perspective, the greatest historical force of capitalism? As well as the source of its main problems? It has resulted from its ability to create "cheap nature", in labor, food, energy and raw materials for which you have paid little or nothing. This capacity is what has now become problematic. By rethinking capitalism through a vibrant dialectic of "humanity in nature," Moore transports readers on a theoretical journey from the rise of historical capitalism to the kaleidoscope of the multiple layers of the current crisis. This book shows how criticism of "capitalism in nature"? Instead of considering capitalism and nature separately? It is fundamental when understanding our situation, as well as pushing in the direction of emancipation in the coming century.