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Books by David Harvey

Now in Paperback: Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism

What I am seeking here is a better understanding of the contradictions of capital, not of capitalism. I want to know how the economic engine of capitalism works the way it does, and why it might stutter and stall and sometimes appear to be on the verge of collapse. I also want to show why this economic engine should be replaced, and with what.” –from the Introduction

Seventeen Contradictions and the End of CapitalismPublished by Profile Books in the UK:

Following on from The Enigma of Capital, the world’s leading Marxist thinker explores the hidden workings of capital and reveals the forces that will lead inexorably to the demise of our system.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 the tensions which underpin the persistence of mass unemployment, the downward spirals of Europe and Japan, and the unstable lurches forward of China and India.

Not that the contradictions of capital are all bad: they can lead to the innovations that make capitalism resilient and, it seems, permanent. Yet appearances can deceive: while many of capital’s contradictions can be managed, others will be fatal to our society. This new book is both an incisive guide to the world around us and a manifesto for change.

 


 

Seventeen Contradictions and the End of CapitalismPublished by Oxford University Press in the US:

To modern Western society, capitalism is the air we breathe, and most people rarely think to question it, for good or for ill. But knowing what makes capitalism work–and what makes it fail–is crucial to understanding its long-term health, and the vast implications for the global economy that go along with it.

In Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism, the eminent scholar David Harvey, author of A Brief History of Neoliberalism, examines the internal contradictions within the flow of capital that have precipitated recent crises. He contends that while the contradictions have made capitalism flexible and resilient, they also contain the seeds of systemic catastrophe. Many of the contradictions are manageable, but some are fatal: the stress on endless compound growth, the necessity to exploit nature to its limits, and tendency toward universal alienation. Capitalism has always managed to extend the outer limits through “spatial fixes,” expanding the geography of the system to cover nations and people formerly outside of its range. Whether it can continue to expand is an open question, but Harvey thinks it unlikely in the medium term future: the limits cannot extend much further, and the recent financial crisis is a harbinger of this.

David Harvey has long been recognized as one of the world’s most acute critical analysts of the global capitalist system and the injustices that flow from it. In this book, he returns to the foundations of all of his work, dissecting and interrogating the fundamental illogic of our economic system, as well as giving us a look at how human societies are likely to evolve in a post-capitalist world.

 

Book Reviews and Interviews, July-August 2014

Interview with David Harvey
Geographical Magazine
July 14, 2014

Interview with Prof. David Harvey
Ekonomi Politik
23 July 2014

Reviews: ‘Capital in the Twenty-First Century’ by Thomas Piketty, ‘Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism’ by David Harvey
By Michael Robbins
Chicago Tribune
July 25, 2014

Review: Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism
By P.P. Ramachandran
The Free Press Journal (India)
August 10, 2014

Ponzi Scheme Capitalism: An Interview with David Harvey
by Steffen Böhm
Review 31
August 11, 2014

Review: Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism
Sankar Ray
Hindustan Times (New Delhi)
August 31, 2014

Review: Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism
by Ståle Holgersen
Society and Space
September 6, 2014

Interviews, Book Reviews, and Book Excerpts – April 2014

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BOOK REVIEW
‘Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism’; ‘Utopia or Bust’
Review by Martin Sandbu
Financial Times
May 2, 2014

BOOK REVIEW
A Companion to Marx’s Capital, Volume 2
Reviewed by Derek Wall
Marx & Philosophy Review of Books
May 2, 2014

INTERVIEW
Global crisis and alternatives: A conversation with David Harvey
By Patrick Clark
Rabble.ca
April 29, 2014

INTERVIEW
Indebted Students Don’t Protest
By Philip Stalhandske
Lundagård
April 22, 2014

EXCERPT
Austerity schemes and right-wing economic doom
Salon.com
April 19, 2014

INTERVIEW
The End of Capitalism
BBC Radio 4: Thinking Allowed
April 14, 2014

INTERVIEW
The contradictions of capitalism: an interview with David Harvey
by Jonathan Derbyshire
Prospect Magazine
April 11, 2014

INTERVIEW
Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism: David Harvey and Owen Jones
London Review Bookshop
April 10, 2014

EXCERPT
Prospects for a Happy but Contested Future: The Promise of Revolutionary Humanism
The White Review
April 7, 2014

INTERVIEW
Professor David Harvey Q&A
By Valentina Zanca
Profile Books
April 3, 2014

EXCERPT
David Harvey: the crisis of capitalism this time around
Roar Magazine
March 24, 2014

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