A close reading of the text of Karl Marx's Capital
Posted in books on Jan 17th, 2012
Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution To be published in April 2012 by Verso Books. Available for pre-order on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk now. Long before the Occupy movement, modern cities had already become the central sites of revolutionary politics, where the deeper currents of social and political change rise [...]
Posted in books on Dec 9th, 2011
Paul Mason of the Guardian writes that The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism is “the most complete Marxist attempt to situate the global crisis in the context of the irresolvable tensions of a system based on ‘self-expanding money’”. Read his article Books for Giving: Economics / Responses to the global financial meltdown. [...]
This video shows David Harvey speaking atop Federal Hill overlooking Baltimore’s Inner Harbor at the opening event of the City From Below conference in March 2009. In this talk, Professor Harvey revisits and updates his famous essay A View from Federal Hill, which appeared in The Baltimore Book and was reprinted in Spaces of Capital. [...]
Posted in books on Jul 6th, 2011
Chapter 5: “Capital Evolves” from David Harvey’s recent book The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism is now available as a free PDF download: Chapter 5: Capital Evolves from The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism (258k PDF) Thanks to Profile Books for making the chapter available. The Enigma of Capital [...]
Posted in books, interviews on Jun 2nd, 2011
The paperback edition of The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism is now available from Profile Books with a new afterword. Video produced by Red Mist Films.
Benjamin Kunkel reviews The Enigma of Capital and A Companion to Marx’s Capital for the London Review of Books, Vol. 33 No. 3, February 3 2011, pages 9-14. Read Kunkel’s article How Much Is Too Much?
Posted in books on Apr 21st, 2011
The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism has been released in paperback in the UK by Profile Books. The second edition features a new afterword. Available now via Amazon.co.uk and waterstones.com. The US paperback edition is scheduled for release this summer by Oxford University Press and is available for pre-order on Amazon.com. Also [...]
Posted in books on Apr 4th, 2011
Bert Olivier reviews The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism for South Africa’s Mail & Guardian and Billy Wharton reviews Enigma for The Examiner.
Posted in books on Nov 15th, 2010
David Harvey’s latest book, The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism, has been awarded the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize for 2010. The Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize is an annual prize given in honor of historian Isaac Deutscher and his wife Tamara Deutscher for new books which ‘exemplify the best [...]
Posted in books on Nov 6th, 2010
Below are the four finalist’s responses to the question posed by David’s publisher, Profile Books. After the hugely enthusiastic response to his London appearances and new book The Enigma of Capital, we wanted to find out more about why David was so important to the left in opposition to mainstream ideology. We had hundreds of [...]
 The Enigma of Capital Oxford University Press (US) Profile Books (UK) 2010 |
 A Companion to Marx's Capital
Verso 2010 |
