A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of he Planet is a book by Raj Patel and Jason W. Moore published in 2018.

Cheapness is then defined as 'a set of strategies to manage relations between capitalism and the web of life', meaning its value is established by social or cultural relationships that maintain the cost lower than what should actually be worth.

It is rather a strategy capitalism has employed to transform undenominated objects and relationships into circuits of production and consumption that have the lowest possible dollar value.

Both authors are considered neo marxist, at least in their method and critique to the exploration relations of capitalism.

This approach commits to understanding human relations of power, production, and environment-making in the web of life.