LEADER 05076cam 2200469 i 4500001 ocn859298829 003 OCoLC 005 20140816064446.6 008 140227s2014 enk b 001 0 eng 010 2014001076 019 880686066 020 9780199360260 (hardback) 020 019936026X (hardback) 035 (Sirsi) 99960983858 035 99960983858 035 (OCoLC)859298829 |z(OCoLC)880686066 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dYDX |dYDXCP |dBTCTA |dBDX |dWIM |dCDX |dIIB |dVP@ |dUtOrBLW 042 pcc 050 00 HB501 |b.H35977 2014 082 00 330.12/2 |223 084 BUS039000POL024000BUS023000 |2bisacsh 100 1 Harvey, David, |d1935- |=^A162343 245 10 Seventeen contradictions and the end of capitalism / |cDavid Harvey. 264 1 Oxford ;New York : |bOxford University Press, USA, |c[2014] 300 xiv, 338 pages ; |c22 cm 336 text |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |2rdamedia 338 volume |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 298-313) and index. 520 ""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 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. David Harvey has long been recognized as one of the world's most acute critical analysts of the global capitalist system and the injustices that flow from it. In this book, he returns to the foundations of all of his work, dissecting and interrogating the fundamental illogic of our economic system, as well as giving us a look at how human societies are likely to evolve in a post-capitalist world"-- |cProvided by publisher. 520 "David Harvey examines the internal contradictions within the flow of capital that have precipitated recent crises. While the contradictions have made capitalism flexible and resilient, they also contain the seeds of systemic catastrophe"-- |cProvided by publisher. 505 00 |tPrologue: the crisis of capitalism this time around -- |gIntroduction: |tOn contradiction -- |gPart One: |tThe foundational contradictions. |tUse value and exchange value -- |tThe social value of labor and its representation by money -- |tPrivate property and the capitalist state -- |tPrivate appropriation and common wealth -- |tCapital and labour -- |tCapital as process or thing? -- |tThe contradictory unity of production and realization -- |gPart Two: |tThe moving contradictions. |tTechnology, work, and human disposability -- |tDivisions of labor -- |tMonopoly and competition: centralisation and decentralisation -- |tUneven geographical developments and the production of space -- |tDisparities of income and wealth -- |tSocial reproduction -- |tFreedom and domination -- |gPart three: |tThe dangerous contradictions. |tEndless compound growth -- |tCapital's relation to nature -- |tThe revolt of human nature: universal alienation -- |gConclusion: |tProspects for a happy but contested future: the promise of revolutionary humanism -- |gEpilogue: |tIdeas for political praxis. 650 0 Capitalism. |=^A6130 650 0 Financial crises. |=^A359938 650 7 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / Macroeconomics. |2bisacsh 650 7 POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy. |2bisacsh 650 7 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History. |2bisacsh 949 |i30372013885840 |ojjlm 960 |o1 |s24.95 |tJoyner48 |uJGEG |zUSD 596 1 998 3690717