CityReads│David Harvey’s New Book Coming Soon
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David Harvey ’s New Book Coming Soon
David Harvey, the greatest expositor, explains Marx's Capital in simple and understandable terms.
Source: http://davidharvey.org/2017/06/new-book-coming-soon-marx-capital-madness-economic-reason/
Marx’s Capital is one of the most important texts of the modern era. The three volumes, published between 1867 and 1883, changed the destiny of countries, politics and people across the world – and continue to resonate today.
In his new book, Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason published on August 31, 2017, David Harvey lays out their key arguments. This book is a concise primer on the world's most important political economy text. In clear and concise language, Harvey describes the architecture of capital according to Marx, placing his observations in the context of capitalism in the second half of the nineteenth century. He considers the degree to which technological, economic and industrial change during the last 150 years means Marx’s analysis and its application may need to be modified. Marx’s trilogy concerns the circulation of capital: volume I, how labor increases the value of capital, which he called valorization; volume II, on the realization of this value, by selling it and turning it into money or credit; volume III, on what happens to the value next in processes of distribution.
Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason provides 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. The three volumes contain the core of Marx’s thinking on the workings and history of capital and capitalism. David Harvey explains and illustrates the profound insights and enormous analytical power they continue to offer in terms that, without compromising their depth and complexity, will appeal to a wide range of readers, including those coming to the work for the first time.
Published by Profile Books in the UK
Published by Oxford University Press in the US
Here are the contents of this book.
Prologue
Chapter 1: The Visualization of Capital as Value in Motion
Chapter 2: Capital, The Book
Chapter 3: Money as the Representation of Value
Chapter 4: Anti-Value: The Theory of Devaluation
Chapter 5: Prices without Values
Chapter 6: The Question of Technology
Chapter 7: The Space and Time of Value
Chapter 8: The Production of Value Regimes
Chapter 9: The Madness of Economic Reason
NOTES
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