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David Harvey

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Distinguished Professor, CUNY Graduate Center; Director of Research, Center for Place, Culture and Politics. New book: The Story of Capital (24 February 2026). Posts from David Harvey personally are signed -DH

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David William Harvey is a British-American academic best known for Marxist analyses that focus on urban geography as well as the economy more broadly. He is a Distinguished Professor of anthropology and geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). 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. .. more

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Editorial Traficantes de Sueños @traficantes-ed.bsky.social · 19d

David Harvey (@davidharvey.org) recuerda toda una vida de encuentros, intelectuales y reales, con el enigmático Piero Sraffa

Tras las huellas de Sraffa ➡️ newleftreview.es/issues/152/a...

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David Harvey @davidharvey.org · 22d

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

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The Story of Capital

For decades, David Harvey has been teaching Marx's work, particularly Capital, to great acclaim. He has analysed chapter by chapter - sometimes line-by-line - Marx's three volumes and the Grundrisse. ...

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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · Aug 22

Chicago!

Haymarket Presents Ruth Wilson Gilmore in conversation with Barbara Ransby

Thursday, September 11th at 6:30 pm
Live from @haymarkethouse.bsky.social with @pilsencommbooks.bsky.social

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Haymarket Presents
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Ruth Wilson Gilmore in conversation with Barbara Ransby
September 11th at 6:30 pm CT
Haymarket House 800 W. Buena

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Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · Jun 24

Really fun piece to read. A long essay by @davidharvey.org on Sraffa
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David Harvey, On Sraffa’s Trail, NLR 152, March–April 2025

David Harvey recalls a lifetime of encounters, actual and intellectual, with the enigmatic Piero Sraffa. Interlocutor of Wittgenstein, Keynes and Robinson; devastating critic of neoclassical economics...

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David Harvey @davidharvey.org · May 29

I had the pleasure of speaking at the @newleftreview.bsky.social 152 launch in the @versobooks.bsky.social space in Manhattan along with @alybatt.bsky.social, Tim Barker and Alexander Zevin on Tuesday.

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David Harvey @davidharvey.org · May 24

The American empire that has sheltered capital for so long is starting to crack. This is a moment of opportunity as well as of peril. A little bit of optimism of the intellect is called for, if only to jump-start the optimism of the will.

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David Harvey, On Sraffa’s Trail, NLR 152, March–April 2025

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David Harvey @davidharvey.org · May 24

and to people, events and political currents that open doors to new ways of thinking, hopefully more adequate to confront the central contradictions of our times. It is, however, one thing to open doors but quite another to pass through en masse, to explore what might exist on the other side.

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David Harvey @davidharvey.org · May 24

So, here am I, in my ninetieth year, looking back on my career as a geographer interested in explaining, with a little help from Marx, how urbanization and uneven development work, finding myself obliged to some extraordinary scholars, such as Sraffa and Robinson;

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David Harvey @davidharvey.org · May 5

My first Capital v1 course has Spanish subtitles on YouTube, thanks to our volunteer translation project.

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Reading Capital

Courses: Reading Marx’s Capital Volume 1 with David Harvey (2019 Edition) Reading Marx’s Capital Volume I with David Harvey (2007 Edition) Reading Marx’s Capital Volume 2 with David Har…

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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · May 5

Today is Karl Marx's birthday.

All books by and on Marx are on sale for up to 50% off as part of our Red May Sale.

May 5th is Marx's birthday

The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways – the point however is to change it. Karl Marx's contributions to the study of economics, politics, and philosophy are beyond measure. ...

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David Harvey @davidharvey.org · May 5

I've made 7 free online courses to help you read Karl Marx:

Reading Marx's Capital v1 (2019 & 2007 eds)
Reading Marx's Capital v2
Reading Marx's Grundrisse (2023 & 2020 eds)
Marx, Capital, & the Madness of Economic Reason
The ABC of Contemporary Capital

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Reading Capital

Courses: Reading Marx’s Capital Volume 1 with David Harvey (2019 Edition) Reading Marx’s Capital Volume I with David Harvey (2007 Edition) Reading Marx’s Capital Volume 2 with David Har…

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David Harvey @davidharvey.org · May 5

Happy Birthday Karl Marx!

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Revista Jacobina @revistajacobina.bsky.social · May 5

David Harvey discute por que a principal obra de Karl Marx continua sendo o guia definitivo para se compreender - e para superar - os horrores do capitalismo.

Por que O Capital continua relevante

David Harvey discute por que a principal obra de Karl Marx continua sendo o guia definitivo para se compreender - e para superar - os horrores do capitalismo.

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David Harvey @davidharvey.org · Apr 29

The net effect is that neoclassical economic modeling is circular and tautological. And Sraffa proved it so. [4/4]

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David Harvey, On Sraffa’s Trail, NLR 152, March–April 2025

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David Harvey @davidharvey.org · Apr 29

In other words the neoclassical production function rests on a tautology. But, said Robinson, “before the economist gets round to posing questions about this, he has become a professor, and so sloppy habits of thought are handed on from one generation to the next.” [3/4]

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David Harvey @davidharvey.org · Apr 29

When capital is in money form there is no problem, but capital also consists of a heterogeneous stock of use values (e.g., machinery, plant and equipment) whose value cannot be established without invoking their impact on the value of Q. [2/4]

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David Harvey @davidharvey.org · Apr 29

Joan Robinson pointed out that the economist’s production function (where Q the output is a function of labor and capital), lacks a satisfactory understanding of the units in which capital can be measured. [1/4]

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