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
expansion social capitalist
Capitalists behave like capitalists wherever they are. They pursue the expansion of value through exploitation without regard to the social consequences.
land may quagmire
Speculation in land may be necessary to capitalism, but speculative orgies periodically become a quagmire of destruction for capital itself.
philosophical tired thinking
There are signs, these days, that the cultural hegemony of postmodernism is weakening in the West. When even the developers tell an architect like Moshe Safdie that they are tired of it, then can philosophical thinking be far behind?
monopoly-power owners certain
All rent is based on the monopoly power of private owners of certain portions of the globe.
contradiction abolition capitalism
The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour.
technological-change force capitalism
Technological change can become 'fetishized' as a 'thing in itself', as an exogenous guiding force in the history of capitalism.
expansion accumulation values
The accumulation of capital involves the the expansion of value over time.
errors judging political
Marx set out to resolve the contradictions and to correct the errors in classical political economy. In this he thought he had succeeded very well. Judging by the sound and the fury of the controversy surrounding his interpretations, he either succeeded too well or deluded himself to the success of his enterprise.
snakes skins peculiar
The capacity to transform itself from the inside makes capitalism a somewhat peculiar beast - chameleon-like, it perpetually changes it colour; snake-like, it periodically sheds its skin.
helping function values
When money functions as measure of value it must truly represent the values it helps to circulate.