Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Timothy Mitchell came by the Verso offices to talk about his latest book, The Alibi of Capital.
Today, extraordinary wealth seems to arrive from nowhere. The trick of conjuring this unearned wealth is, in fact, the key to understanding capitalism’s origins and a clue to why the catastrophe of climate collapse is upon us: value is created by consuming the future.
In The Alibi of Capital, the acclaimed author of Carbon Democracy examines capitalism's method of stealing the future and concealing the theft.
The Alibi of Capital by Timothy Mitchell is available from Verso Books:
versobooks.com/products/3452-the-alibi-of-capital?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=alibi_video
Timothy Mitchell came by the Verso offices to talk about his latest book, The Alibi of Capital.
Today, extraordinary wealth seems to arrive from nowhere. The trick of conjuring this unearned wealth is, in fact, the key to understanding capitalism’s origins and a clue to why the catastrophe of climate collapse is upon us: value is created by consuming the future.
In The Alibi of Capital, the acclaimed author of Carbon Democracy examines capitalism's method of stealing the future and concealing the theft.
The Alibi of Capital by Timothy Mitchell is available from Verso Books:
versobooks.com/products/3452-the-alibi-of-capital?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=alibi_video
