6. Appalachia, Capitalism, and Progress with Steven Stoll

Steven Stoll is a professor of History at Fordham University, where he teaches a variety of courses including Political Philosophy, Climate and Society, Capitalism, American West, and numerous others. He is interested in the way people discuss resources, capital, and economic functions on Earth.  He is the author of numerous books, most recently he is the author of the insightful book Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia.   During this episode, we discuss the history of Appalachia and what caused their current issues, capitalism vs socialism, what is progress, and the importance of history to understanding the world today.  

Books by Steven Stoll: 

Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia

The Great Delusion: A Mad Inventor, Death in the Tropics, and the Utopian Origins of Economic Growth

U.S. Environmentalism Since 1945, A Brief History With Documents

Larding the Lean Earth: Soil and Society in Nineteenth-Century America 

Books Recommended by Steven Stoll: 

1. All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity - Marshall Berman 

2. Footprints: In Search of Future Fossils - David Farrier 

3. The Progress of This Storm: Nature and Society in a Warming World - Andreas Malm 

4. Moby Dick - Herman Melville 

5. A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway 

6. Several Short Sentences About Writing - Verlyn Klinkenborg 

7. The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith 

8. Capital - Karl Marx 

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