David Harvey is one of the most cited authors in the humanities and social sciences. A leading theorist in the field of urban studies whom Library Journal called 'one of the most influential geographers of the later twentieth century,' he is currently a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Earth and Environmental Sciences at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of many books, including Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason (Profile Books, 2017) and A Brief History of Neoliberalism (Oxford University Press, 2005).
Preface - Jordan T. Camp
Editors' Note - Jordan T. Camp and Chris Caruso
Author's Note - David Harvey
Acknowledgements
1. Global Unrest
2. A Brief History of Neoliberalism
3. Contradictions of Neoliberalism
4. The Financialization of Power
5. The Authoritarian Turn
6. Socialism and Freedom
7. The Significance of China in the World Economy
8. The Geopolitics of Capitalism
9. The Growth Syndrome
10. The Erosion of Consumer Choices
11. Primitive or Original Accumulation
12. Accumulation by Dispossession
13. Production and Realization
14. Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Climate Change
15. Rate versus Mass of Surplus Value
16. Alienation
17. Alienation at Work: The Politics of a Plant Closure
18. Anti-Capitalist Politics in the Time of COVID-19
19. The Collective Response to a Collective Dilemma
Discussion Questions and Further Readings
Index
