Politics in the Fridge (Paperback)
Dmytro Lutsenko
Sold by CitiRetail, Stevenage, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller since 29 June 2022
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Add to basketSold by CitiRetail, Stevenage, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller since 29 June 2022
Condition: New
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketPaperback. Open your refrigerator. What do you see? Eggs, butter, coffee, a carton of milk, the leftover half of something you meant to finish. Now look again - because none of it is innocent. Every item on that shelf is the last stop on a journey through commodity exchanges, central bank boardrooms, trade negotiations, subsidy programmes, and supply chains stretched across continents. The coffee you drink each morning was priced by traders you will never meet. The bread on your counter carries the fingerprints of an agricultural policy written decades before you were born. Your heating bill is a verdict handed down by regulators who have never seen your kitchen.The Politics in the Fridge is a book about the hidden political life of the household - the argument that the most ordinary economic experiences, the ones we treat as private, mundane, even boring, are in fact where the biggest forces in the world quietly land. Interest rate decisions made in Washington. Currency wars fought in Beijing. Climate shocks in the wheat belt of Ukraine. All of it, eventually, shows up as a number on a receipt.This is not a book of complaint, and it is not a manual for revolution. It is a book of translation - one that teaches you to read the price of a carton of eggs the way an economist reads a balance sheet, and to recognise, behind every rising bill, a decision that someone, somewhere, made on purpose. Once you can see that, the household stops feeling like a place where the world simply happens to you, and starts looking like what it actually is: the frontline of political economy, disguised as a shopping list. You will never look at your fridge the same way again. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
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Open your refrigerator. What do you see? Eggs, butter, coffee, a carton of milk, the leftover half of something you meant to finish. Now look again — because none of it is innocent. Every item on that shelf is the last stop on a journey through commodity exchanges, central bank boardrooms, trade negotiations, subsidy programmes, and supply chains stretched across continents. The coffee you drink each morning was priced by traders you will never meet. The bread on your counter carries the fingerprints of an agricultural policy written decades before you were born. Your heating bill is a verdict handed down by regulators who have never seen your kitchen.
The Politics in the Fridge is a book about the hidden political life of the household — the argument that the most ordinary economic experiences, the ones we treat as private, mundane, even boring, are in fact where the biggest forces in the world quietly land. Interest rate decisions made in Washington. Currency wars fought in Beijing. Climate shocks in the wheat belt of Ukraine. All of it, eventually, shows up as a number on a receipt.
This is not a book of complaint, and it is not a manual for revolution. It is a book of translation — one that teaches you to read the price of a carton of eggs the way an economist reads a balance sheet, and to recognise, behind every rising bill, a decision that someone, somewhere, made on purpose. Once you can see that, the household stops feeling like a place where the world simply happens to you, and starts looking like what it actually is: the frontline of political economy, disguised as a shopping list. You will never look at your fridge the same way again.
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