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Barriers to accumulation are perpetually dissolving and re-forming around the issue of so-called nat...

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The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism

The common-sense notion that 'There is a time and place for everything' gets carried into a set of p...

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The Condition of Postmodernity: An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change

Capitalists too, as the novelist Charles Dickens noted, liked to think of their workers as 'hands' o...

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Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism

We can't, it seems, live without [capitalism] even as we complain about it.

The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism

This is what the bourgeois political economists have done: they have treated value as a fact of natu...

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A Companion to Marx's Capital

Failure to recognize the historical specificity of the bourgeois conception of rights and duties lea...

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A Companion to Marx's Capital

But the more time has been released from production, the more imperative it has become to absorb tha...

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Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism

What separates Rand from Marx is that the latter saw the true flourishing of individual creativity a...

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Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism

Fierce, and what capitalists sometimes call 'ruinous' competition tends, therefore, to produce leap-...

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The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism

Empiricism assumes that objects can be understood independendy of observing subjects. Truth is there...

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Since the 1970S, financial innova­tions such as the securitisation of mortgage debt and the spreadin...

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The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism

...those thoroughly incorporated within the inexorable logic of the market and its demands find that...

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There's a difference between an outburst of spontaneous anger, which doesn't have a political object...

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Beyond the speculative and often fraudulent froth that characterizes much of neoliberal financial ma...

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A Brief History of Neoliberalism

The main substantive achievement of neoliberalization, however, has been to redistribute, rather tha...

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One of the curious things about our educational system, I would note, is that the better trained you...

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A Companion to Marx's Capital

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David Harvey

Professor

Born: 1935-10-31

Died: N/A

David Harvey (born 31 October 1935) is an English geographer and the Distinguished Professor of Geography and Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). His work has contributed greatly to broad social and political debate, most recently he has been credited with helping to bring back social class and Marxist methods as serious methodological tools in the critique of global capitalism, particularly in its neoliberal form.More