Seventeen contradictions and the end of capitalism / David Harvey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harvey, David, 1935- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitalism.

Financial crises.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (354 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

""What I am seeking here is a better understanding of the contradictions of capital, not of capitalism. I want to know how the economic engine of capitalism works the way it does, and why it might stutter and stall and sometimes appear to be on the verge of collapse. I also want to show why this economic engine should be replaced, and with what."" --from the Introduction To modern Western society, capitalism is the air we breathe, and most people rarely think to question it, for good or for ill. But knowing what makes capitalism work--and what makes it fail--is crucial to understanding its lon

Contents:

Cover; Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Prologue: The Crisis of Capitalism This Time Around; Introduction: On Contradiction; Part One: The Foundational Contradictions; Contradiction 1 Use Value and Exchange Value ; Contradiction 2 The Social Value of Labour and Its Representation by Money; Contradiction 3 Private Property and the Capitalist State; Contradiction 4 Private Appropriation and Common Wealth; Contradiction 5 Capital and Labour; Contradiction 6 Capital as Process or Thing?

Contradiction 7 The Contradictory Unity of Production and RealisationPart Two: The Moving Contradictions; Contradiction 8 Technology, Work and Human Disposability; Contradiction 9 Divisions of Labour; Contradiction 10 Monopoly and Competition: Centralisation and Decentralisation; Contradiction 11 Uneven Geographical Developments and the Production of Space; Contradiction 12 Disparities of Income and Wealth; Contradiction 13 Social Reproduction; Contradiction 14 Freedom and Domination; Part Three: The Dangerous Contradictions; Contradiction 15 Endless Compound Growth

Contradiction 16 Capital's Relation to NatureContradiction 17 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; Notes; Bibliography and Further Reading; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-023085-1

0-19-936027-8