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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

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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What use is 'polycrisis' to an analysis of capitalism?

What would David Harvey have to say to polycrisis liberals who are disoriented?
Brilliant essay by @cacrisalves.bsky.social offering an analysis of the foundations of economic life & madness of economic reason
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Polycrisis, or the 'Madness of Economic Reason'
There could hardly be a more urgent moment to revisit David Harvey’s (2017) Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason. The economic rationality that has dominated the twenty-first century is no...
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Weekend read?

In honour of D Harvey’s birthday, I revisit Marx, Capital & the Madness of Economic Reason. I challenge the ‘polycrisis’ narrative, focus on capital & use a physics analogy to explain value.

Happy birthday, David Harvey! 🎉🎂

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Polycrisis, or the 'Madness of Economic Reason'
There could hardly be a more urgent moment to revisit David Harvey’s (2017) Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason. The economic rationality that has dominated the twenty-first century is no...
www.versobooks.com

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"For David, the principal focus of Marx’s Grundrisse is capital, defined as self-expanding value in motion."

Nancy Fraser described the importance and impact of A Companion to Marx's Grundrisse by @davidharvey.org.

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Capital and/or Capitalist Society? A Tale of Two Totalities
David Harvey has inspired me for many years. In 1970 he guided my first reading of Capital Volume 1 in a New Left study group. We’ve since had many discussions, at conferences, symposia and book launc...
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David Harvey, The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works - @versobooks.bsky.social, February 2026
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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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