Spaces of Global Capitalism

A Theory of Uneven Geographical Development

David Harvey

• Publisher: Verso
• Year: 2019
• ISBN:
  9781788734660
• Topic: Economia
• Subtopic: Economia politica

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.

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...