David Harvey is one of the most cited authors in the humanities and social sciences. A leading theorist in the field of urban studies whom Library Journal called 'one of the most influential geographers of the later twentieth century,' he is currently a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Earth and Environmental Sciences at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of many books, including Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason (Profile Books, 2017) and A Brief History of Neoliberalism (Oxford University Press, 2005).

Preface - Jordan T. Camp

Editors' Note - Jordan T. Camp and Chris Caruso

Author's Note - David Harvey

Acknowledgements

1. Global Unrest

2. A Brief History of Neoliberalism

3. Contradictions of Neoliberalism

4. The Financialization of Power

5. The Authoritarian Turn

6. Socialism and Freedom

7. The Significance of China in the World Economy

8. The Geopolitics of Capitalism

9. The Growth Syndrome

10. The Erosion of Consumer Choices

11. Primitive or Original Accumulation

12. Accumulation by Dispossession

13. Production and Realization

14. Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Climate Change

15. Rate versus Mass of Surplus Value

16. Alienation

17. Alienation at Work: The Politics of a Plant Closure

18. Anti-Capitalist Politics in the Time of COVID-19

19. The Collective Response to a Collective Dilemma

Discussion Questions and Further Readings

Index