THE STORY OF CAPITAL by David Harvey | What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works

In The Story of Capital, the world's foremost Marxist geographer and economist takes us by the hand on a tour of contemporary capitalism. Over the decades, David Harvey has won the acclaim of students and academics for his teaching of Marx’s work, with a particular focus on Capital. Chapter by chapter – sometimes line by line – he has analysed and expatiated on Marx’s three volumes and the Grundrisse. Now in The Story of Capital, this mental universe, populated by observations gleaned from a lifetime of scholarship, becomes accessible to the general reader. Harvey presents an overview of the key concepts across Marx’s work and its central themes, from labour and technology to the state and geopolitics, via the profit rate, social reproduction, capital’s relationship to nature, fictitious capital, and the return of the rentiers. The Story of Capital is destined to endure as a reference work for all those trying to grasp the nature of contemporary capitalism. The Story of Capital by David Harvey is available now from Verso Books: https://www.versobooks.com/products/3... 00:00 Introduction 00:56 Preface 01:47 The Circulation of Labour Capacity and the Origin of Profit 05:13 Technological Dynamism and the Productivity of Labour 08:11 Extractivism and the Metabolic Relation to Nature 10:51The Troublesome Case of Fictitious Capital 15:35 The State-Finance Nexus and The Geopolitics of Capital 17:44 Conclusion