Posted in articles, interviews on Mar 6th, 2009
The Crisis and the Consolidation of Class Power David Harvey interviewed by Marco Berlinguer and Hilary Wainwright on December 13th, 2008. Available at Red Pepper Does this crisis signal the end of neoliberalism? My answer is that it depends what you mean by neoliberalism. My interpretation is that it’s a class project, now masked by [...]
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Posted in articles on Feb 15th, 2009
Exhibit A: The Arrogance of the Neoclassical Economists David Harvey February 15, 2009 http://davidharvey.org A response to DeLong. The real mystery here is the arrogance of the economists in the face of a catastrophic situation. I would have thought that in a profession dominated by neoclassical and increasingly neoliberal theory these last thirty years, that [...]
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Posted in articles on Feb 12th, 2009
Much is to be gained by viewing the contemporary crisis as a surface eruption generated out of deep tectonic shifts in the spatio-temporal disposition of capitalist development. The tectonic plates are now accelerating their motion and the likelihood of more frequent and more violent crises of the sort that have been occurring since 1980 or [...]
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