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The story of capital : what everyone should know about how capital works / David Harvey.
Van Pelt - New Book Display HB501 .H3599 2026
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harvey, David, 1935- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Capital.
- Capitalism.
- Communism.
- Marxian economics.
- Genre:
- Informational works.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 386 pages : black and white illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Verso Books, 2026.
- Summary:
- "The world's leading Marxist geographer and economist guides general readers through major concepts in capitalism and Marx's masterwork. 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. This new book opens up the mental universe of that work for a general reader. In The Story of Capital, Harvey takes a synoptic approach to the conceptual architecture as a whole and guides us through the key moments, from labour and technology to the state and geopolitics, via the profit rate, social reproduction, the relationship to nature, fictitious capital and the return of the rentiers. In doing so, Harvey has produced a work which will become a key reference for all those trying to grasp the nature of contemporary capitalism." --publisher's website.
- Contents:
- A mental map of capital's domain
- The circulation of labour capacity and the origin of profit
- Technological dynamism and the productivity of labour
- Marx in Manchester
- The falling rate and rising mass of profit
- The equalization of the profit rate
- Masses in motion
- The production of space, time and place
- Social reproduction and the circulation of labour power
- Extractivism and the metabolic relation to nature
- Fixed capital and the consumption fund
- The circulation of interest-bearing capital
- The troublesome case of fictitious capital
- Accumulation by dispossession
- The return of the rentier
- The state-finance nexus
- The geopolitics of capital
- Appendix: Piero and me.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781836742111
- 1836742118
- OCLC:
- 1504603088
- Publisher Number:
- CIPO000327948
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