“Throwing Money into the Sea”: Capitalism as a World-ecological System. Evidence from the Chilean Salmon Industry Crisis, 2008

The financial crisis of 2008 triggered an academic and intellectual debate over whether that particular crisis could mean a change to neoliberalism or a movement toward a post-neoliberal moment. Underlining those debates was a return to Marxian analytics and ideas on crisis and political and economic tools for explaining the economic crisis of the time. Around the same time another sort of crisis was unfolding in the marine waters of the Los Lagos Region of southern Chile. The Immuno Salmon Anemia (ISA) virus rapidly spread through currents, affecting the production of Atlantic salmon in the country.