New Releases by David Harvey

Inspirado nas Crônicas anticapitalistas, podcast quinzenal em que David Harvey analisa as atuais conjunturas política, social e econômica global, a obra homônima apresenta ao leitor um sobrevoo acessível e aprofundado de assuntos variados como o neoliberalismo pós-crise de 2008, a ascensão da extrema-direita no mundo, o papel da China na economia, as mudanças climáticas, o mundo pós-covid e, claro, o futuro do socialismo. Sem deixar de lado a análise marxista, que é parte fundamental de sua obra, Harvey perpassa conceitos essenciais como alienação, acumulação primitiva, financeirização, etc. Com uma linguagem acessível, própria da oralidade, o autor apresenta novas maneiras de entender a crise do capitalismo global e as lutas por um futuro melhor. Ao mesmo tempo em que aborda assuntos espinhosos, Harvey também narra a esperança e a possibilidade de inventarmos alternativas para o futuro. Ele descreve, com brilhantismo característico, como as alternativas socialistas estão sendo imaginadas em circunstâncias muito difíceis. Ao entender as dimensões econômicas, políticas e sociais da crise, a análise do geógrafo em Crônicas anticapitalistas será de importância estratégica para qualquer pessoa que queira compreender e mudar o mundo.

When leading scholar of Marx, Roman Rosdolsky, first encountered the virtually unknown text of Marx''s Grundrisse - his preparatory work for his masterpiece Das Capital - in the 1950s in New York Public Library, he recognized it as "a work of fundamental importance," but declared "its unusual form" and "obscure manner of expression, made it far from suitable for reaching a wide circle of readers." David Harvey''s Companion to Marx''s Grundrisse builds upon his widely acclaimed companions to the first and second volumes of Capital in a way that will reach as wide an audience as possible. Marx''s stated ambition for this text - where he was thinking aloud about some of possible metamorphoses of capitalism - is to reveal "the exact development of the concept of capital as the fundamental concept of modern economics, just as capital itself is the foundation of bourgeois society." While respecting Marx''s desire to "bring out all the contradictions of bourgeois production, as well as the boundary where it drives beyond itself," David Harvey also pithily illustrates the relevance of Marx''s text to understanding the troubled state of contemporary capitalism.

David Harvey explores the coaches of the iconic Midland Red company.

Os sentidos do mundo reúne ensaios escolhidos pelo próprio David Harvey, oferecendo uma síntese retrospectiva de suas mais importantes e originais contribuições teóricas. A coletânea abarca um imenso leque de temas – da ecologia à pós-modernidade, passando por imperialismo, geopolítica, história urbana, crises financeiras e as dinâmicas de urbanização – e ao mesmo tempo revela um fio condutor comum e uma coerência articulada no trabalho de edição. Harvey é um dos mais notáveis intelectuais marxistas da última metade do século e um dos autores mais citados do mundo nas ciências sociais. Com cinco décadas de carreira acadêmica e militante, escreveu diversos livros e dezenas de ensaios e artigos influentes sobre temas que atravessam política, cultura, economia e justiça social. Além de reunir artigos clássicos, a obra traz ensaios inéditos em língua portuguesa, todos acompanhados de comentários do autor, explicando o contexto da publicação original e refletindo sobre sua atualidade e sua relevância para a contemporaneidade.

Durante más de tres siglos el sistema capitalista ha dominado y configurado la sociedad occidental, sufriendo implosiones periódicas en las que pueblos y personas quedaban expuestos a perderlo todo. En este lúcido ensayo el profesor David Harvey recurre a su conocimiento sin rival del capitalismo para preguntarse cómo y por qué puede ser así, y si debe seguir siendo así para siempre. Con una argumentación sólida y documentada, el autor muestra que los episodios esporádicos de crisis en el sistema capitalista no sólo son inevitables, sino también esenciales para su supervivencia; las políticas fiscales y monetarias que no tengan eso en cuenta causarán más daño que beneficio. La esencia del capitalismo es el interés egoísta, y hablar de imponerle regulaciones y moralidad es irracional. El Enigma del Capital presenta una amplia panorámica de la crisis económica actual desde los acontecimientos que llevaron al colapso económico de 2008 hasta hoy y explica la dinámica político-económica del capitalismo. Harvey pronostica el probable desarrollo de la situación actual, describiendo cómo ha evolucionado el capitalismo y cómo se pueden controlar las crisis. Este oportuno y brillante libro abre con soltura y claridad nuevas vías que podrían conducirnos a un orden social sostenible realmente justo, responsable y humano.

A wonderful selection of photographs documenting the British buses in both Lisbon and Portugal as a whole.

Fiscal crises have cascaded across much of the developing world with devastating results, from Mexico to Indonesia, Russia and Argentina. The extreme volatility in contemporary political economic fortunes seems to mock our best efforts to understand the forces that drive development in the world economy. David Harvey is the single most important geographer writing today and a leading social theorist of our age, offering a comprehensive critique of contemporary capitalism. In this fascinating book, he shows the way forward for just such an understanding, enlarging upon the key themes in his recent work: the development of neoliberalism, the spread of inequalities across the globe, and ‘space’ as a key theoretical concept. Both a major declaration of a new research programme and a concise introduction to David Harvey’s central concerns, this book will be essential reading for scholars and students across the humanities and social sciences.

"David Harvey...has inspired a generation of radical intellectuals." —Naomi Klein A "forensic and ferocious" manifesto on the city as a center for anti-capitalist resistance from an acclaimed theorist (The Guardian) Long before Occupy, cities were the subject of much utopian thinking. They are the centers of capital accumulation as well as of revolutionary politics, where deeper currents of social and political change rise to the surface. Do the financiers and developers control access to urban resources or do the people? Who dictates the quality and organization of daily life? Rebel Cities places the city at the heart of both capital and class struggles, looking at locations ranging from Johannesburg to Mumbai, from New York City to São Paulo. Drawing on the Paris Commune as well as Occupy Wall Street and the London Riots, Harvey asks how cities might be reorganized in more socially just and ecologically sane ways—and how they can become the focus for anti-capitalist resistance.

Now a classic of Marxian economics, The Limits to Capital provides one of the best theoretical guides to the history and geography of capitalist development. In this edition, Harvey updates his classic text with a substantial discussion of the turmoil in world markets today.In his analyses of ''fictitious capital'' and ''uneven geographical development'' Harvey takes the reader step by step through layers of crisis formation, beginning with Marx''s controversial argument concerning the falling rate of profit, moving through crises of credit and finance, and closing with a timely analysis geopolitical and geographical considerations.

David Harvey explores, with the help of illustrations, what happened to Birmingham buses after withdrawal from service.

Para a sociedade ocidental moderna, o capital parece tão natural como o ar que se respira, e quase ninguém pensa em questioná-lo. Mas saber o que faz o capital funcionar – e o que, por outro lado, pode abalar suas bases – é crucial para compreender sua saúde em longo prazo, bem como as vastas implicações de qualquer mudança para a economia global. É o que faz o geógrafo britânico David Harvey nesta obra incisiva, ao revelar a vanguarda de suas análises das dinâmicas do capital e destrinchar as contradições internas desse motor econômico. Escrito em linguagem acessível, 17 contradições e o fim do capital coroa o "Projeto Marx", que orienta a obra de Harvey há vinte anos, repensando Karl Marx em época de mutação e crise do capitalismo. A decisão de focar a análise nas contradições se deve em parte ao escritos do filósofo alemão, que enfatizou diversas vezes que crises do tipo que o mundo viveu em 2007-2008 são manifestações superficiais de contradições internas do capital. O objetivo de Harvey é inverter o uso da ideia de contradição como ponto final da reflexão e torná-la o início da conversa, em particular sobre o que seria uma política anticapitalista e como poderíamos entender as crises. Ao longo dessa análise sistemática, Harvey constata que, embora a forma de manifestação de algumas contradições tenha se desenvolvido desde a época de Marx, a estrutura das contradições do capital é surpreendentemente constante. Além disso, tais contradições são interligadas e interagem (às vezes se apoiam) mutuamente; e revelam um retrato muito mais descentralizado do capital do que se costuma pintar.

Examines the history of each type of single-decker and offers a fascinating insight into the history of these captivating, iconic buses.

Karl Marx''s Capital is one of the most important texts written in the modern era. Since 1867, when the first of its three volumes was published, it has had a profound effect on politics and economics in theory and practice throughout the world. But Marx wrote in the context of capitalism in the second half of the nineteenth century, and his assumptions and analysis need to be updated in order to address to the technological, economic, and industrial change that has followed Capital''s initial publication. In Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason, David Harvey not only provides a concise distillation of his famous course on Capital, but also makes the text relevant to the twenty-first century''s continuing processes of globalization. This book serves as an accessible window into Harvey''s unique approach to Marxism and takes readers on a riveting roller coaster ride through recent global history. It demonstrates how and why Capital remains a living, breathing document with an outsized influence on contemporary social thought.

Se suele invocar la idea de libertad para justificar la acción política. Presidentes estadounidenses tan dispares como Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan y George W. Bush han cimentado sus políticas en alguna variante del noble ideal de la libertad. Sin embargo, en la práctica, los proyectos suelen chocar con las circunstancias específicas que se dan sobre el terreno. Tal como prueban Abu Ghraib o Guantánamo, la búsqueda de la libertad puede conducir a la violencia y la represión más severas, y socavan nuestra fe en las teorías universales del liberalismo, el neoliberalismo y el cosmopolitismo. Aunando sus dos pasiones, la política y la geografía, David Harvey bosqueja un orden cosmopolita más acorde con una forma emancipatoria de entender la gobernanza global. Cuando los proyectos políticos ignoran la complejidad de la geografía, suelen fracasar. Incorporar el saber geográfico en la formulación de las estrategias políticas y sociales es una condición necesaria para alcanzar una democracia genuina. Harvey comienza con una aguda crítica de los usos políticos de la libertad, en especial durante el gobierno de George W. Bush. A continuación, mediante la investigación ontológica de las nociones fundacionales de la geografía –el espacio, el lugar y el medio–, reconstruye de una manera radical el conocimiento geográfico para reformular la teoría social y la acción política sobre nuevas bases. Como Harvey deja meridianamente claro, esa transformación alumbra un cosmopolitismo que está arraigado en la experiencia humana, no en ideales ilusorios, y nos pone en camino de alcanzar la liberación que necesitamos.

David Harvey is one of most famous Marxist intellectuals in the past half century, as well as one of the world''s most cited social scientists. Beginning in the early 1970s with his trenchant and still-relevant book Social Justice and the City and through this day, Harvey has written numerous books and dozens of influential essays and articles on topics across issues in politics, culture, economics, and social justice. In The Ways of the World, Harvey has gathered his most important essays from the past four decades. They form a career-spanning collection that tracks not only the development of Harvey over time as an intellectual, but also a dialectical vision that gradually expanded its reach from the slums of Baltimore to global environmental degradation to the American imperium. While Harvey''s coverage is wide-ranging, all of the pieces tackle the core concerns that have always animated his work: capitalism past and present, social change, freedom, class, imperialism, the city, nature, social justice, postmodernity, globalization, and the crises that inhere in capitalism. A career-defining volume, The Ways of the World will stand as a comprehensive work that presents the trajectory of Harvey''s lifelong project in full.

"O Partido de Wall Street teve seu tempo e falhou miseravelmente. Como construir uma alternativa a partir de sua ruína é tanto uma oportunidade imperdível quanto uma obrigação que nenhum de nós pode ou deveria jamais procurar evitar." É com essa máxima que o geógrafo acadêmico mais citado do mundo, David Harvey, inicia seu novo livro, O enigma do capital: e as crises do capitalismo, o primeiro de sua autoria a ser lançado pela Boitempo Editorial. Harvey parte da análise da crise do subprime imobiliário de 2008 para demonstrar que, apesar de seu alcance e tamanho, ela não difere das crises passadas. Para tanto, o autor estuda as condições necessárias para a acumulação do capital e utiliza rigoroso arsenal teórico ao expor o papel fundamental que as crises têm na reprodução do capitalismo e os riscos sistêmicos de longo prazo que o capital representa para a vida no planeta. Riscos sistêmicos estes, inerentes ao capitalismo de livre mercado, que os economistas não foram capazes de compreender quando a crise estourou e até hoje parecem não ter ideia do que são ou do que fazer com eles. "Quando os políticos e economistas especializados parecem tão inconscientes e indiferentes à propensão do capitalismo a crises, quando tão alegremente ignoram os sinais de alerta a seu redor e chamam os anos de volatilidade e turbulência iniciados nos anos 1990 de ''a grande moderação'', então o cidadão comum pode ser perdoado por ter tão pouca compreensão em relação ao que o atinge quando eclode uma crise e tão pouca confiança nas explicações dos especialistas que lhe são oferecidas", afirma o autor. Nem sempre, porém, houve essa cegueira generalizada entre os economistas.

A fascinating collection of photographs giving a picture of life in Coventry between 1914 and 1946 through the city''s bus fleet.

WORUM GEHT ES? Gibt es seit dem Ende des Kommunismus wirklich keine echten Alternativen zum Kapitalismus? David Harvey meint: Doch! Man muss allerdings das Wesen des Kapitalismus genau verstehen, um ihn durch einen revolutionären Humanismus ersetzen zu können, in dessen Zentrum nicht das Kapital, sondern der Mensch steht. Konkret untersucht Harvey die Anhäufung von Kapital, das fatale Wachstumscredo, den spekulativen Immobilienmarkt und den Raubbau an der Natur. Er beschreibt jedoch nicht nur Krisen, sondern zeigt auch Chancen auf. Denn gerade die Widersprüche im Kapitalismus können Anfangspunkte für neue politische und kulturelle Bewegungen sein. Die utopische Kraft dafür kommt aus den Städten. WAS IST BESONDERS? Eine fundierte, realitätsnahe Kapitalismuskritik und zugleich ein Manifest des Wandels – geschrieben von einem der führenden Sozialtheoretiker der heutigen Zeit. WER LIEST? • Jeder, der die globalen Machtverhältnisse kritisch sieht • Leser von Stéphane Hessel, Michael J. Sandel, David Graeber und Thomas Piketty

Accounting: an introduction by Atrill provides a clear and approachable introduction to accounting and finance for those seeking to understand the main concepts and their practical application to good decision-making.

David Harvey examines the foundational contradictions of capital, and reveals the fatal contradictions that are now inexorably leading to its end

The biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression shows no sign of ending, and Marx''s work remains key to any attempt to understand the ebb and flow of capitalist economies. For nearly forty years, David Harvey has written and lectured on Capital, becoming one of the world''s foremost Marx scholars. Based on his recent lectures, and following the success of his companion to the first volume of Capital, Harvey turns his attention to Volume 2, aiming to bring his depth of learning to a broader audience, guiding first-time readers through a fascinating and often-neglected text. Whereas Volume 1 focuses on production, Volume 2 looks at how value comes into being through the buying and selling of goods. Harvey also introduces elements from Volume 3 on credit and finance to help illustrate aspects of the contemporary crisis.

Dass Städte politische Räume sind, verrät bereits die Herkunft des Wortes Politik vom griechischen »polis«. In Städten wird regiert und demonstriert, zuletzt in Kairo oder New York. In Städte wird aber auch investiert, Geld verwandelt sich in Häuser, in Wolkenkratzer und Vorortsiedlungen. Und schließlich ist Stadtplanung spätestens seit dem Umbau von Paris durch Georges-Eugènes Haussmann immer zugleich ein Instrument der politischen Kontrolle. All diesen Themen geht David Harvey in »Rebellische Städte» nach. Er befasst sich mit dem Zusammenhang zwischen Hochhausboom und Wirtschaftskrise, mit dem rasanten Wachstum chinesischer Städte und erkundet das emanzipatorische Potenzial urbaner Protestbewegungen wie »Occupy Wall Street« und »Recht auf Stadt«.

Mucho antes de que se creara el movimiento 15-M u Occupy Wall Street, las ciudades del mundo moderno se habían convertido en focos de la política revolucionaria, en los que emergían a la superficie las corrientes más profundas del cambio social y político. Las ciudades han sido, desde siempre, objeto de reflexión utópica y revolucionaria. Sin embargo, al mismo tiempo, la ciudad ha sido centros de la acumulación capitalista y línea del frente en las luchas por el control del acceso a los recursos urbanos así como de la calidad y organización de la vida cotidiana. ¿A quién corresponde ese control de la urbe, a los financieros y promotores inmobiliarios, o al pueblo? Ciudades rebeldes sitúa la ciudad en el centro de la lucha de clases y en torno al capital, desde Johannesburgo hasta Bombay y desde Nueva York hasta São Paulo. Dirigiendo su atención tanto a la Comuna de París como al movimiento Occupy Wall Street y los disturbios en Londres, Harvey se pregunta cómo se pueden reorganizar las ciudades de una forma socialmente más justa y ecológicamente más sana, y cómo se pueden convertir en el centro de la resistencia anticapitalista. «“¿De quién son las calles? ¡Nuestras!” En Ciudades rebeldes David Harvey nos muestra cómo podemos convertir en realidad ese dictamen. La tarea –y este libro– difícilmente podrían ser más importantes.» Benjamin Kunkel, autor de Indecision y fundador de la web n+1 «David Harvey provocó una revolución en su especialidad y ha inspirado a una generación de intelectuales radicales.» Naomi Klein «Análisis con escalpelo, despiadado.» Owen Hatherley, The Guardian «Lo que proclama Harvey es que somos “nosotros”, no los promotores inmobiliarios, los planificadores empresariales o las elites políticas, los que construimos verdaderamente la ciudad, y que sólo a nosotros nos corresponde el derecho a controlarla.» Jonathan Moses, Open Democracy «Los intelectuales del movimiento Occupy apreciarán las descripciones expuestas en Ciudades rebeldes de diversos ejemplos históricos e internacionales de luchas urbanas por recuperar el espacio público y construir su cultura, y sin duda hallarán motivo de inspiración en las reflexiones de Harvey sobre cómo desarrollar un movimiento anticapitalista revolucionario vivaz y resistente.» Publisher''s Weekly «Una voz inteligente y coherente desde la izquierda.» Edwin Heathcote, Financial Times

For over forty years, David Harvey has been one of the world''s most trenchant and critical analysts of capitalist development. In The Enigma of Capital, he delivers an impassioned account of how unchecked neoliberalism produced the system-wide crisis that now engulfs the world. Beginning in the 1970s, profitability pressures led the capitalist class in advanced countries to shift away from investment in industrial production at home toward the higher returns that financial products promised. Accompanying this was a shift towards privatization, an absolute decline in the bargaining power of labor, and the dispersion of production throughout the developing world. The decades-long and ongoing decline in wages that accompanied this turn produced a dilemma: how can goods--especially real estate--sell at the same rate as before if workers are making less in relative terms? The answer was a huge expansion of credit that fueled the explosive growth of both the financial industry and the real estate market. When one key market collapsed--real estate--the other one did as well, and social devastation resulted. Harvey places today''s crisis in the broadest possible context: the historical development of global capitalism itself from the industrial era onward. Moving deftly between this history and the unfolding of the current crisis, he concentrates on how such crises both devastate workers and create openings for challenging the system''s legitimacy. The battle now will be between the still-powerful forces that want to reconstitute the system of yesterday and those that want to replace it with one that prizes social justice and economic equality. The new afterword focuses on the continuing impact of the crisis and the response to it in 2010. One of Huffington Post''s Best Social and Political Awareness Books of 2010 Winner of the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize for 2010 Praise for the Hardcover: "A lucid and penetrating account of how the power of capital shapes our world." --Andrew Gamble, Independent "Elegant... entertainingly swashbuckling... Harvey''s analysis is interesting not only for the breadth of his scholarship but his recognition of the system''s strengths." --John Gapper, Financial Times

The history of Belfast''s trolleybus system told through a fascinating collection of photographs.

Neoliberalism - the doctrine that market exchange is an ethic in itself, capable of acting as a guide for all human action - has become dominant in both thought and practice throughout much of the world since 1970 or so. Its spread has depended upon a reconstitution of state powers such that privatization, finance, and market processes are emphasized. State interventions in the economy are minimized, while the obligations of the state to provide for the welfare of its citizens are diminished. David Harvey, author of ''The New Imperialism'' and ''The Condition of Postmodernity'', here tells the political-economic story of where neoliberalization came from and how it proliferated on the world stage. While Thatcher and Reagan are often cited as primary authors of this neoliberal turn, Harvey shows how a complex of forces, from Chile to China and from New York City to Mexico City, have also played their part. In addition he explores the continuities and contrasts between neoliberalism of the Clinton sort and the recent turn towards neoconservative imperialism of George W. Bush. Finally, through critical engagement with this history, Harvey constructs a framework not only for analyzing the political and economic dangers that now surround us, but also for assessing the prospects for the more socially just alternatives being advocated by many oppositional movements.

People around the world are confused and concerned. Is it a sign of strength or of weakness that the US has suddenly shifted from a politics of consensus to one of coercion on the world stage? What was really at stake in the war on Iraq? Was it all about oil and, if not, what else was involved? What role has a sagging economy played in pushing the US into foreign adventurism and what difference does it make that neo-conservatives rather than neo-liberals are now in power? What exactly is the relationship between US militarism abroad and domestic politics? These are the questions taken up in this compelling and original book. Closely argued but clearly written, ''The New Imperialism'' builds a conceptual framework to expose the underlying forces at work behind these momentous shifts in US policies and politics. The compulsions behind the projection of US power on the world as a ''new imperialism'' are here, for the first time, laid bare for all to see. This new paperback edition contains an Afterword written to coincide with the result of the 2004 American presidental election.

A practical guide to working with primary and secondary students who need extra attention. It outlines the principles behind diversity and inclusive policies, and discusses the range of needs teachers can expect to encounter in an inclusive classroom.