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David Harvey (1) (1935–)

Author of A Brief History of Neoliberalism

For other authors named David Harvey, see the disambiguation page.

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David Harvey received a Bachelor's degree and Ph.D. in geography from Cambridge University. After graduating in 1961, he joined the geography department at Bristol University as a lecturer. In the following years, he held teaching positions at Johns Hopkins and Oxford universities. He has written show more numerous books including Justice Nature and the Geography of Differences, The Urban Experience, The Condition of Postmodernity, and An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change. He has received many honors, among them the Outstanding Contributor Award of the Association of American Geographers, the Anders Retzuis Gold Medal of the Swedish Society of Anthropology and Geography, and the Vautrin Lud International Geography Prize. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by David Harvey

The Limits to Capital (1982) 417 copies
The New Imperialism (2003) 253 copies
Spaces of Hope (2000) 181 copies
Paris, Capital of Modernity (2006) 156 copies
Social Justice and the City (1973) 138 copies
The Urban Experience (1989) 91 copies
The Ways of the World (2016) 49 copies
Explanation in Geography (1763) 32 copies
Pour lire le Capital (2012) 1 copy

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WHY isn't the information contained within this book available to everyone? The answer, of course, is that the powers that be do not wish it so to be.

That may sound conspiratorial but, in this occasion, it has the ring of truth: a conspiracy theory is not a conspiracy theory when it IS a conspiracy!
 
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the.ken.petersen | 13 other reviews | Dec 31, 2023 |
Very useful book to help demystify some of the stuff in Capital Volume 1. I disagree with quite a bit of what he says when he goes beyond Capital (particularly the focus on neoliberalism) but he connects it to Marx's work and seeing someone explicitly draw from it and developing it is useful. Most helpful early on - at parts it's limited to reiterating what Marx has said; understandable because the first couple of parts are definitely the toughest so it's not too big a deal. I do think he sometimes misses chances to argue a bit further. The main example is the labour theory of value - Marx didn't feel the need to justify it because it was commonly accepted at the time and Harvey only spends about a page (I think) doing so. Given that it's such an important part of what follows, it would have been nice to have a bit more time spent on it.

Overall though, very handy guide and I recommend it as a guide to your own understanding and interpretation.

(Couple of things: David Harvey recommends the Penguin edition, which is probably the best available, if you're planning on following along, and it's the one he quotes from with page numbers. However, the Penguin version comes with an appendix which is another chapter Marx wrote but didn't publish yet Harvey doesn't mention it at all. It's no big deal, but it would have been nice just to say "I'm not covering the appendix" somewhere)
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tombomp | 3 other reviews | Oct 31, 2023 |
Oh, but reading economics makes my head hurt. This was informative and had some interesting ideas. While some sections and references struck me as dated - for things that happened so few years ago! - I'm going to keep thinking about others.
 
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Kiramke | 7 other reviews | Jun 27, 2023 |
Everyone can accept that class struggle on behalf of the unwashed masses manifests as strikes and revolutions. But what about the other way? That's the void that Harvey's consistently addresses: the elites fight a class struggle too and their tool is neoliberalism. From Reagan and Thatcher to current globalization tactics, Harvey's point is that the rich fight the poor all the time. However, instead of doing it in the streets, they do it via public policy that regardless of political bent will ultimately favour continued advantage for the ruling class.… (more)
 
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