The history of capitalism has also been studied to better understand the current notion of capitalism as world-ecological, in such studies Jason W Moore views the history of capitalism to be related to environmental history, thus establishing a link between the two studies. He also discusses that capitalism as viewed in the past can also be viewed as world-ecology to aid explanation of a concept within a certain context. World-ecology also works with the history of societies to analyse their effects in the world-ecology in the past and their contribution to the current state of the world-ecology, where such contributions can be beneficial or undesirable.
