Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy by Khalili, Laleh
Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy by Khalili, Laleh

Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy

An exposé of the extractive industries powering globalization --and a primer on fighting back Laleh Khalili reflects...
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Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy by Khalili, Laleh

Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy

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Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy by Khalili, Laleh

Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Drive the Global Economy

$37.25
Author: Laleh Khalili
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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An exposé of the extractive industries powering globalization --and a primer on fighting back

Laleh Khalili reflects on the hidden stories behind late capitalism, from seafarers abandoned on debt-ridden container ships to the nefarious reach of consultancy firms and the cronyism that drives record-breaking profits. Piercing, wry, and constantly revealing, Extractive Capitalism brings vividly to light the dark truths behind the world's most voracious industries.

Whether it is pumping oil, mining resources, or shipping commodities across oceans, the global economy runs on extraction. Promises of frictionless trade and lucrative speculation are the hallmarks of our era, but the backbone of globalization is still low-cost labor and rapacious corporate control. Extractive capitalism is what made--and what maintains--our unequal world.

Author: Laleh Khalili
Publisher: Verso
Published: 08/26/2025
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781836740285


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/15/2025

About the Author
Laleh Khalili teaches at the University of Exeter. Her books include Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula, Heroes and Martyrs of Palestine: The Politics of National Commemoration and The Corporeal Life of Seafaring.

An Iranian American, she received a BS in chemical engineering from the University of Texas and a PhD in political science from Columbia University. She was previously a Professor of Middle Eastern Politics at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London and a Professor of International Politics at Queen Mary University, London. An internationally-renowned expert on the oil industry, global trade and geopolitics in the Gulf region with over 43,000 Twitter followers, Professor Khalili has worked as a consultant and an engineer and has written widely on globalization, capital and neocolonialism. She has written for the Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, Financial Times and Agence France-Presse and contributes regularly to London Review of Books.
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