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Fiscal crises have cascaded across much of the developing world with devastating results, from Mexico to Indonesia, Russia and Argentina. The extreme volatility in contemporary economic fortunes seems to mock our best efforts to understand the forces that drive development in the world economy.
David Harvey, the single most important geographer writing today and a leading social theorist of our age, offers a comprehensive critique of contemporary capitalism. In this fascinating book, he shows the way forward for just such an understanding, enlarging upon the key themes in his recent work: the development of neoliberalism, the spread of inequalities across the globe, and 'space' as a key theoretical concept.
Both a major declaration of a new research programme and a concise introduction to David Harvey's central concerns, this book will be essential reading for scholars and students across the humanities and social sciences.
David Harvey, the single most important geographer writing today and a leading social theorist of our age, offers a comprehensive critique of contemporary capitalism. In this fascinating book, he shows the way forward for just such an understanding, enlarging upon the key themes in his recent work: the development of neoliberalism, the spread of inequalities across the globe, and 'space' as a key theoretical concept.
Both a major declaration of a new research programme and a concise introduction to David Harvey's central concerns, this book will be essential reading for scholars and students across the humanities and social sciences.
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INDEX
accumulation see capital accumulation
advocacy groups 51
Afghanistan 53, 138
agglomeration economies 98
agriculture
destruction of India’s rural economy 49
and opposition to capital accumulation 52
Allende, Salvador 12
al-Qaeda 9
“American values” 60, 68
Amnesty International 53
anti-capitalist movement 114–15
anti-communism 58
anti-globalization movement 48
Arab-Israeli War 14
architecture, and space 130
Argentina 68, 80, 94
Arnold, Matthew 9
Arrighi, Giovanni 94
art
and concepts of space 130, 132–3
socialist realism 139
assets, appropriation of 45, 94, 95
Austro-Hungarian Empire 105
authoritarianism
and culture of individual rights 50
neo-conservatism 58, 66
in neo-liberal states 28, 31, 34, 40, 41, 57, 59, 61
Balzac, Honoré de 138
Bandung Conference (1955) 41
Bank of International Settlements 26
Barry, Judith 132–3
Bartholomew, A. 53, 57
Benjamin, Walter 131, 137–8
Bin Laden, Osama 138
Blair, Tony 33
bourgeoisie 90–1, 93, 105
Braudel, P. 79–80
Brazil 12, 17, 41, 49, 68, 113
Breakspear, J. 53, 57
Bremer, Paul 10, 54
Brenner, R. 31–2
Bretton Woods system 14
Britain
City financiers 24
economic crisis in 1970s 14
economic expansion in 1990s 42
as hegemonic center of capital accumulation 94, 105
intelligence on oil-producing countries 21
left political power in 1970s 15
model of neo-liberalism 33
neo-liberal turn under Thatcher 12, 13–14, 15–17, 29–30, 48
Burawoy, M. 144–5
Burke, Edmund 72
Burkett, Paul 87–8
Bush, George W. 9, 11, 56–7, 60
business
Chinese Communist Party 40
climate in Thatcher’s Britain 16
in mission of neo-liberal state 25, 26, 106
US coalition with elit...
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Introduction: Hettner-Lecture 2004 in Heidelberg
- Neo-liberalism and the restoration of class power
- Notes towards a theory of uneven geographical development
- Space as a key word
- Notes
- Index