Value of Nothing

The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 1, 2010
To Raj Patel, visiting scholar at UC Berkeley's Center for African Studies, our faith in prices as a way of valuing the world is misplaced. In his new book The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy, he discusses the true social and ecological costs of everything from a hamburger to public health initiatives.

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