Creative Destruction: The End(s) of Capitalism: Ruination and Rebirth in Central Appalachia

Bradley M. Jones

The director of a local economic development authority leads me on a tour near the coalfields of central Appalachia on a recent winter weekend. ‘This place is unique in this country’, he says, ‘I doubt there is any other region that has been so completely left for dead’. Out the window the signs are starkRead more