The Limits to Capital

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An exciting, insightful exposition and development of Marx’s critique of political economy.

The Limits to Capital provides one of the best theoretical guides to the history and geography of capitalist development.

In this new 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'...

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Overview

An exciting, insightful exposition and development of Marx’s critique of political economy.

The Limits to Capital provides one of the best theoretical guides to the history and geography of capitalist development.

In this new 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.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781844670956
  • Publisher: Verso
  • Publication date: 1/19/2007
  • Edition description: Revised
  • Pages: 478
  • Sales rank: 588,131
  • Product dimensions: 6.20 (w) x 9.30 (h) x 1.50 (d)

Meet the Author

David Harvey teaches at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and is the author of many books, including Social Justice and the City, The Condition of Postmodernity, The Limits to Capital, A Brief History of Neoliberalism, Spaces of Global Capitalism, A Companion to Marx's Capital, and Rebel Cities.

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Table of Contents

Introduction to the Verso Edition
Introduction
Ch. 1 Commodities, Values and Class Relations 1
Appendix The Theory of Value 35
Ch. 2 Production and Distribution 39
Ch. 3 Production and Consumption, Demand and Supply and the Realization of Surplus Value 75
Ch. 4 Technological Change, the Labour Process and the Value Composition of Capital 98
Ch. 5 The Changing Organization of Capitalist Production 137
Ch. 6 The Dynamics of Accumulation 156
Ch. 7 Overaccumulation, Devaluation and the 'First-Cut' Theory of Crisis 190
Ch. 8 Fixed Capital 204
Ch. 9 Money, Credit and Finance 239
Ch. 10 Finance Capital and its Contradictions 283
Ch. 11 The Theory of Rent 330
Ch. 12 The Production of Spatial Configurations: The Geographical Mobilities of Capital and Labour 373
Ch. 13 Crises in the Space Economy of Capitalism: The Dialectics of Imperialism 413
Afterword 446
References 452
Name Index 467
Subject Index 469
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