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The Story of Capital
What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works
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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,...
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The world's leading Marxist geographer and economist takes us by the hand to guide us through Marx's masterwork
The world's leading Marxist geographer and economist takes us by the hand to guide us through Marx's masterwork
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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 us through the key moments, from labour and technology to the state and geopolitics, via the profit rate, social reproduction, the relationship to nature, fictitious capital, and the return of the rentiers. In doing so, Harvey has produced a work which will become a key reference for all those trying to grasp the nature of contemporary capitalism.
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ISBN: 9781836742111
Publisher: Verso Books
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 24 February 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Verso Books
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 27.0mm
Width: 153.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 527g
Pages: 400
About the Author
David Harvey teaches at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and is the author of many books, including Social Justice and the City, The Condition of Postmodernity, The Limits to Capital, A Brief History of Neoliberalism, Spaces of Global Capitalism, and A Companion to Marx's Capital. His website is http://davidharvey.org
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