David Harvey

A Brief History of Neoliberalism by David Harvey is an incisive exploration of one of the most significant economic and political philosophies of the modern era. Harvey meticulously charts the origins and development of neoliberalism, a doctrine that promotes market exchange as an ethical standard capable of influencing all aspects of human behaviour. Emerging as a dominant force in global...

When leading scholar of Marx, Roman Rosdolsky, first encountered the virtually unknown text of Marx's Grundrisse—his preparatory work for his masterpiece Das Capital—in the 1950s in New York Public Library, he recognized it as "a work of fundamental importance," but declared "its unusual form" and "obscure manner of expression, made it far from suitable for reaching a wide circle of...

A great deal has been written on what has variously been described as the post-modern condition and on post-modern culture, architecture, art and society. In this new book, The Condition of Postmodernity, David Harvey seeks to determine what is meant by the term in its different contexts and to identify how accurate and useful it is as a description of...

For three centuries, the capitalist system has shaped Western society, informed its rulers, and conditioned the lives of its people. Has the time come to move beyond it? Using his unrivalled knowledge of the subject, Harvey lays bare the follies of the international financial system, looking at the nature of capitalism, how it works, and why sometimes it doesn't. He...

For decades, David Harvey has been teaching Marx's work, particularly Capital, to great acclaim. He has analysed chapter by chapter—sometimes line-by-line—Marx's three volumes and the Grundrisse. This new book opens up the mental universe of that work for a general reader. In The Story of Capital, Harvey takes a synoptic approach to the conceptual architecture as a whole and guides...

You thought capitalism was permanent? Think again. David Harvey unravels the contradictions at the heart of capitalism—its drive, for example, to accumulate capital beyond the means of investing it, its imperative to use the cheapest methods of production that leads to consumers with no means of consumption, and its compulsion to exploit nature to the point of extinction. These are...

This book engages with the politics of social and environmental justice, and seeks new ways to think about the future of urbanisation in the twenty-first century. It establishes foundational concepts for understanding how space, time, place, and nature — the material frames of daily life — are constituted and represented through social practices, not as separate elements but in relation...

Amidst waves of economic crises, health crises, class struggle and neo-fascist reaction, few possess the clarity and foresight of world-renowned theorist, David Harvey. Since the publication of his bestselling A Brief History of Neoliberalism, Harvey has been tracking the evolution of the capitalist system as well as tides of radical opposition rising against it. In The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles, Harvey introduces...

Marx's Capital is one of the most important texts of the modern era. The three volumes, published between 1867 and 1883, changed the destiny of countries, politics and people across the world—and continue to resonate today. In this book, David Harvey lays out their key arguments. In clear and concise language, Harvey describes the architecture of capital according to Marx,...

Fiscal crises have cascaded across much of the developing world with devastating results, from Mexico to Indonesia, Russia, and Argentina. The extreme volatility in contemporary economic fortunes seems to mock our best efforts to understand the forces that drive development in the world economy. David Harvey, the single most important geographer writing today and a leading social theorist of our...