{"id":181890,"date":"2010-01-14T15:01:29","date_gmt":"2010-01-14T20:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-01-14-raj-patel-on-colbert\/"},"modified":"2010-01-14T15:01:29","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T20:01:29","slug":"raj-patel-on-colbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/181890","title":{"rendered":"Raj Patel on Colbert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tby Tom Philpott <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Raj Patel, author of the food-politics tome <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/9781933633497?&amp;PID=25450\">Stuffed and Starved<\/a>, has a new book out on the failure of neoliberal economics. It&#8217;s called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/biblio\/9780312429249?&amp;PID=25450\">The Value of Nothing<\/a>, after the immortal Oscar Wilde quote about how &#8220;nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.&#8221; A couple of nights ago (above), Raj got the Colbert treatment, and handled himself pretty well. And from the Grist artchives, <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.grist.org\/article\/slow-food-nation-interview-raj-patel\/\">here&#8217;s <\/a>Patel (more than) holding his own against another wacky interviewer (me).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/colbert-report-save-the-endangered-hillbilly\/\">Stephen Colbert on mountaintop-removal mining<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-01-14-caitlin-flanagan-colbert\/\">Anti&#8211;school garden campaigner Caitlin Flanagan, on Colbert back in  &#8216;06<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-01-13-win-a-signed-copy-of-antarctica-2041\/\">Win a signed copy of &#8216;Antarctica 2041&#8217;! [updated]<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=e948dd496717a7cb03b89d614a722f0d&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=e948dd496717a7cb03b89d614a722f0d&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2223\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Tom Philpott Raj Patel, author of the food-politics tome Stuffed and Starved, has a new book out on the failure of neoliberal economics. It&#8217;s called The Value of Nothing, after the immortal Oscar Wilde quote about how &#8220;nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.&#8221; A couple of nights ago [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":765,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/765"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}