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The Marxist in Residence: an interview with David Harvey
March 27, 2026

Ira and Rudy join renowned geographer David Harvey for a chat on his pedagogy and his theories of economics, neoliberalism and imperialism.

Listen here

Join us for the book launch at The People’s Forum featuring David Harvey and discussant Adam Tooze.

David Harvey’s new book, The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works, has been published by Verso Press.

Over the decades, David Harvey has won the acclaim of students and academics for his teaching of Marx’s work, with a particular focus on Capital. Chapter by chapter – sometimes line by line – he has analysed and expatiated on Marx’s three volumes and the Grundrisse. Now in The Story of Capital, this mental universe, populated by observations gleaned from a lifetime of scholarship, becomes accessible to the general reader.

David Harvey is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology & Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), the Director of Research at the Center for Place, Culture and Politics, and the author of numerous books. He has been teaching Karl Marx’s Capital for over 50 years.

Adam Tooze is the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History at Columbia University. He teaches and researches widely in the fields of twentieth-century and contemporary history. From a start in modern German history with a special focus on the history of economics and economic history his interests have widened to take in a range of themes in political, intellectual and military history, across a canvas stretching from Europe across the Atlantic. His most recent book was Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Economy (2021).

Monday, March 30 at 6:30 pm

The People’s Forum
320 West 37th Street
New York, NY

Free Registration

Available from Verso Books

I have spent my life interpreting capitalism in order to build an alternative

By David Harvey

In November 2008, at the height of the global financial crisis, Queen Elizabeth visited the London School of Economics. In the course of this visit she asked the assembled economists why they had not seen the financial crisis coming. Not having any immediate answers, the economists consulted and ran seminars. Six months later they sent a collective letter to Her Majesty explaining that some mix of hubris and failure to confront systemic risks lay at the root of their failures. Neglecting systemic risks appears particularly egregious. Most of us would not choose to board an airplane that had not been checked for systemic risks.

My new book, The Story of Capital, seeks to interrogate the internal malfunctions and systemic risks within capital’s mode of production, but it does so with the aid of rather special theoretical tools drawn from Marx’s work on the political economy of capital. While Marx famously proclaimed that our aim should not be to understand the world but to change it, he put an enormous amount of time and effort into understanding that which he sought to change. Indeed, his practice suggests that he believed it vital to understand capital in order to change it.

Read the full article at The New Statesman

Had a very nice chat with Doug Henwood for his Behind the News podcast about my new book, The Story of Capital.

Listen on Doug’s site or Apple Podcasts.

From the Verso website:

This month, in honour of David Harvey‘s ninetieth birthday, we’re publishing a series of short essays on David’s unparalleled contribution on urban geography, anthropology and economics. David’s newest book, The Story of Capital, will soon be available to preorder here.

• Explaining with David – Eric Sheppard
• Geographies of Explanation in Geography – Trevor J. Barnes
• A View from Outside-In – Helga Leitner
• Harvey’s Urbanization of Capital – Richard A. Walker
• The Marxist Restless Analyst – Andy Merrifield
• Harvey and Postmodernity – Ashok Kumar
• On Militant Particularism and Universal Emancipation – Erik Swyngedouw
• Revolutionary Optimism – Melissa W. Wright
• On Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom – Tariq Jazeel
• Capital and/or Capitalist Society? A Tale of Two Totalities  – Nancy Fraser
• On Rebel Cities – Desiree Fields
• The Foundational, the Moving and the Dangerous – Shaina Potts
• Teaching Marx for the Conjuncture – Dave Featherstone
• Limits and Beyond – Eric Sheppard

See all Verso works by Harvey here.

My next book, The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works, will be published on 24 February 2026 by Verso.

I’ve published some personal reflections on Piero Sraffa in the latest New Left Review.