My guest is David Harvey, a scholar, geographer and social theorist.
He is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has served on the faculty of Johns Hopkins University and held the Halford Mackinder Chair in Geography at the University of Oxford.
David Harvey has received the Vautrin Lud International Prize in Geography, the Anders Retzius Gold Medal of the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography, the Patron’s Medal of the Royal Geographical Society and many other awards. In 1998, he became a fellow of the British Academy and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007.
Harvey is perhaps most well known for his university course on Marx’s Capital. For over 50 years, he has taught and studied these foundational texts. He is considered by many to be the most influential Marxist scholar alive today. We discuss his 29th and most recent book The Story of Capital, out now from Verso Books.
Our conversation explores the foundation for a Marxist analysis of value and political economy. What are the defining features of this new era? In a period of mounting crises, what forces might intervene to correct our stagnant economic systems?
David Harvey: Marx and Capitalism | Doomscroll
This program is part of the 82nd Whitney Biennial, curated by Marcella Guerrero and Drew Sawyer, recorded live at the Whitney Museum in New York City.
On part 2, we discuss the looming crisis of AI, the rise of China, the little known but very important work of economist Piero Sraffa and, of course, the origins of marmalade:
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