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    Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism
    Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism
    Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism
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    Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism

    Written by David Harvey

    Narrated by James Cameron Stewart

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    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 long-term health, and the vast implications for the global economy that go along with it.

    In Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism, the eminent scholar David Harvey, author of A Brief History of Neoliberalism, examines the internal contradictions within the flow of capital that have precipitated recent crises. He contends that while the contradictions have made capitalism flexible and resilient, they also contain the seeds of systemic catastrophe. Many of the contradictions are manageable, but some are fatal: the stress on endless compound growth, the necessity to exploit nature to its limits, and tendency toward universal alienation. Capitalism has always managed to extend the outer limits through "spatial fixes," expanding the geography of the system to cover nations and people formerly outside of its range. Whether it can continue to expand is an open question, but Harvey thinks it unlikely in the medium term future: the limits cannot extend much further, and the recent financial crisis is a harbinger of this.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateSep 8, 2020
    ISBN9781705242209
    Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism
    Author

    David Harvey

    David Harvey is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has written extensively on the political economy of globalisation, urbanisation, and cultural change. His recent books include Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism (Profile Books, 2014) and The Ways of the World (Profile Books, 2016). He contributed the foreword to the Pluto Press edition of The Communist Manifesto (Pluto, 2008; 2017).

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      Comprehensive and coherent, addresses the destitution of our current world and explains how to better it. Could not recommend more highly.