David Harvey
David Harvey
David W. Harvey FBAis the Distinguished Professor of anthropology and geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He received his PhD in geography from the University of Cambridge in 1961. Harvey has authored many books and essays that have been prominent in the development of modern geography as a discipline. He is a proponent of the idea of the right to the city...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth31 October 1935
David Harvey quotes about
long world capitalism
If all money capital invests in appropriation and none in actual production, than capitalism is not long for this world.
helping function values
When money functions as measure of value it must truly represent the values it helps to circulate.
commodity inflation hard
Rampant inflation is just as hard to live with as the devaluation of commodities.
space space-time
Capital creates space-time .
wall differences political
There's a difference between an outburst of spontaneous anger, which doesn't have a political objective, and a more measured response that we saw in the Occupy Wall Street movement.
hands invisible-hand form
the net effect of increasing scale, centralization of capital, vertical integration and diversification within the corporate form of enterprise has been to replace the 'invisible hand' of the market by the 'visible hand' of the managers.
financial finance concentration
Massive concentration of financial power, accompanied by the machinations of finance capital , can as easily de-stabilize as stabilize capitalism.