Raj Patel is an award-winning writer, activist and academic. His journalism and scholarly work has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Guardian, The Mail on Sunday and The Socialist Review.  His first full-length book, Stuffed and Starved, was published by Portobello Books in 2007. His next book The Value of Nothing is an urgent contribution to the economic, environmental and social debate, showing how our faith in prices as a way of valuing the world is damaging and misplaced.

Visit Raj's wesbite at www.rajpatel.org. See the trailer for the US edition of The Value of Nothing.