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Bret Wallach - A World Made for Money: Economy, Geography, and the Way We Live Today - 9780803298910 - V9780803298910
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A World Made for Money: Economy, Geography, and the Way We Live Today

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Description for A World Made for Money: Economy, Geography, and the Way We Live Today Hardback. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: KCP; RGC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 164 x 40. Weight in Grams: 860.

A spirited and incisive survey of economic geography, A World Made for Money begins with the author stopped at a red light in Norman, Oklahoma. Observing the landscape of drugstores and banks, and for that matter the stoplight and roads themselves, Bret Wallach observes, “Everything I see has been built to make money” or, at the very least, to facilitate making money. This, he argues, is a global phenomenon that nonetheless has occurred only within the past hundred years or so. Although guidebooks and culture brokers often disparage these landscapes of commerce, Wallach—recipient of a MacArthur “genius grant”—argues that we ... Read more

A World Made for Money provides a compelling, condensed tour of our world. From Silicon Valley to Sri Lanka, from post-Soviet Russia to post-apartheid South Africa, Wallach looks at how human beings are buying, manufacturing, working, growing and shipping food, and accessing the natural resources to fuel it all. These essential facets of daily life, propelled by the profit motive, represent a transnational force shaping our surroundings and environment in ways that may not always be beautiful (or even healthy) but that are fundamental to understanding how the world works in the twenty-first century. Wallach examines the relationship between acquisitiveness and landscape, reveals surprising contradictions and nuances, and provides fresh perspective on politically charged topics such as sprawl, deindustrialization, and agribusiness.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
488
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803298910
SKU
V9780803298910
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Bret Wallach
Bret Wallach is a professor of geography at the University of Oklahoma. A MacArthur Fellow, he is the author of several books, including Understanding the Cultural Landscape; Losing Asia: Modernization and the Culture of Development; and At Odds with Progress: Americans and Conservation.

Reviews for A World Made for Money: Economy, Geography, and the Way We Live Today
"Fascinating, memorable—a grand book."—E. J. Delaney, CHOICE “A compelling book, written by one of geography’s most gifted writers.”—Kent Mathewson, professor of geography and anthropology at Louisiana State University and coeditor of Re-Reading Cultural Geography  “In this lively and energetic book Bret Wallach uncovers the forces that are changing the face of the earth—from Guangdong Province to Youngstown, Ohio—in their restless ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for A World Made for Money: Economy, Geography, and the Way We Live Today


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