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xiv, 338 pages ; 22 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-313) and index. |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Contents |
Prologue: the crisis of capitalism this time around -- Introduction: On contradiction -- Part One: The foundational contradictions. Use value and exchange value -- The social value of labor and its representation by money -- Private property and the capitalist state -- Private appropriation and common wealth -- Capital and labour -- Capital as process or thing? -- The contradictory unity of production and realization -- Part Two: The moving contradictions. Technology, work, and human disposability -- Divisions of labor -- Monopoly and competition: centralisation and decentralisation -- Uneven geographical developments and the production of space -- Disparities of income and wealth -- Social reproduction -- Freedom and domination -- Part three: The dangerous contradictions. Endless compound growth -- Capital's relation to nature -- The revolt of human nature: universal alienation -- Conclusion: Prospects for a happy but contested future: the promise of revolutionary humanism -- Epilogue: Ideas for political praxis. |
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Capitalism.
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Financial crises.
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Capitalism. (OCoLC)fst00846425
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Financial crises. (OCoLC)fst00924607
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| ISBN |
9780199360260 (hardback) |
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019936026X (hardback) |
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9780190230852 |
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0190230851 |
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