Essays

Jason W. Moore

Essays, Articles, and Interviews

forthcoming. Cheap Food & Bad Money: Food, Frontiers, and Financialization in the Rise and Demise of Neoliberalism, Review: A Journal of the Fernand Braudel Center 33(2-3).

2011. ‘Eine Zivilisation, deren Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten sich erschöpft haben,’ (‘A civilization whose developmental possibilities have been exhausted’.) Interviewed by Mathias Becker, Telepolis, 14 June.

2011. Wall Street is a Way of Organizing Nature: Interview, Upping the Anti 12, 47-61.

2011. Ecology, Capital, and the Nature of Our Times: Accumulation and Crisis in the Capitalist World-Ecology, Journal of World-Systems Research 17(1), 108-147.

2011. Transcending the Metabolic Rift: A Theory of Crises in the Capitalist World-Ecology, The Journal of Peasant Studies 38(1), 1-46.

2011. The Socio-Ecological Crises of Capitalism, in Capitalism and Its Discontents: Conversations with Radical Thinkers in a Time of Tumult, in Sasha Lilley, ed. Oakland, CA: PM Press, 136-152.

2010. The End of the Road? Agricultural Revolutions in the Capitalist World-Ecology, 1450-2010, Journal of Agrarian Change 10(3), 389-413.

Discussion of this essay can be found here.

2010. ‘Amsterdam is Standing on Norway’ Part II: The Global North Atlantic in the Ecological Revolution of the Long Seventeenth Century, Journal of Agrarian Change 10(2), 188-227.

2010. ‘Amsterdam is Standing on Norway’ Part I: The Alchemy of Capital, Empire and Nature in the Diaspora of Silver, 1545-1648, Journal of Agrarian Change 10(1), 33-68.

Bernstein and Byres Prize in Agrarian Studies, The Journal of Agrarian Change, for Parts I and II, 2011.

2010. ‘This lofty mountain of silver could conquer the whole world’: Potosí and the Political Ecology of Underdevelopment, 1545-1800, Journal of Philosophical Economics 4(1): 58-103.

2010, in press. Madeira, Sugar, and the Conquest of Nature in the ‘First’ Sixteenth Century, Part II: From Local Crisis to Commodity Frontier, 1506-1530, Review: A Journal of the Fernand Braudel Center 33(1). Abstract.

2009. Madeira, Sugar, & the Conquest of Nature in the ‘First’ Sixteenth Century, Part I: From ‘Island of Timber’ to Sugar Revolution, 1420-1506, Review: A Journal of the Fernand Braudel Center 32(4).

2008. Ecological Crises and the Agrarian Question in World-Historical Perspective, Monthly Review 60(6): 54-63.

2007. Ecology and the Rise of Capitalism. PhD Dissertation, Department of Geography, University of California - Berkeley. Front matter.

2007. Silver, Ecology, and the Origins of the Modern World, 1450-1640. In Rethinking Environmental History: World System History and Global Environmental Change, J.R. McNeill, Joan Martinez-Alier, and Alf Hornborg, eds. Berkeley: AltaMira Press.

2003. Capitalism as World-Ecology: Braudel and Marx on Environmental History. Organization & Environment 16(4), 431-458.

2003. Nature and the Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism. Review: A Journal of the Fernand Braudel Center 26(2), 97-172.

2003. The Modern World-System as Environmental History? Ecology and the Rise of Capitalism, Theory & Society 32(3), 307-377.

2003. Ecology & Imperialism, Essay review of Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World, by Mike Davis. Monthly Review 55 (1), 58-62. Download paper.

German translation, Sozialistische Zeitung, 2004 (August).

2002. The Crisis of Feudalism: An Environmental History, Organization & Environment 15(3), 296-317.

2002. Remaking Work, Remaking Space: Spaces of Production and Accumulation in the Reconstruction of American Capitalism, 1865-1920. Antipode 34(2), 176-204.

2001 (with Giovanni Arrighi). Capitalist Development in World Historical Perspective. In Robert Albritton, et al., eds., Phases of Capitalist Development: Booms, Crises, and Globalization. New York: Palgrave, 56-75.

2001. Capitalism, Territory, and Hegemony over the Longue Durée. Science & Society 65(4): 476-484.

2001. (Re)discovering Marx’s Materialism. Organization & Environment 14(2): 240-245.

2001. Marx’s Ecology and the Environmental History of World Capitalism. Capitalism Nature Socialism 23(3).

2000. Environmental Crises and the Metabolic Rift in World-Historical Perspective. Organization & Environment 13(2): 123-158.

                             Distinguished Scholarship Award, for articles,
                                   Political Economy of the World-System Section
                                   American Sociological Association, 2002.

2000. Globalization in Historical Perspective. Science & Society 65(3): 386-397.

2000. Sugar and the Expansion of the Early Modern World-Economy: Commodity Frontiers, Ecological Transformation, and Industrialization, Review: A Journal of the Fernand Braudel Center 23(3), 409-433. Abstract.

2000. Marx and the Historical Ecology of Capital Accumulation on a world scale: A Comment on Alf Hornborg’s 'Ecosystems and World Systems: Accumulation as an Ecological Process’. Journal of World-Systems Research 6(1): 133-138. Abstract.

1997. “Capitalism over the Longue Durée: A Review Essay,” review of Giovanni Arrighi’s The Long Twentieth Century. Critical Sociology 23(3), 103-116. Download paper.