Fiscal crises have cascaded across much of the developing world withdevastating results, from Mexico to Indonesia, Russia and Argentina. Theextreme volatility in contemporary political economic fortunes seems to mockour best efforts to understand the forces that drive development in the worldeconomy.
David Harvey is the single most important geographer writing today and aleading social theorist of our age, offering a comprehensive critique of contemporarycapitalism. In this fascinating book, he shows the way forward for just such anunderstanding, enlarging upon the key themes in his recent work: thedevelopment 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 conciseintroduction to David Harvey's central concerns, this book will be essentialreading for scholars and students across the humanities and social sciences.
Fiscal crises have cascaded across much of the developing world withdevastating results, from Mexico to Indonesia, Russia and Argentina. Theextreme volatility in contemporary political economic fortunes seems to mockour best efforts to understand the forces that drive development in the worldeconomy.
David Harvey is the single most important geographer writing today and aleading social theorist of our age, offering a comprehensive critique of contemporarycapitalism. In this fascinating book, he shows the way forward for just such anunderstanding, enlarging upon the key themes in his recent work: thedevelopment 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 conciseintroduction to David Harvey's central concerns, this book will be essentialreading for scholars and students across the humanities and social sciences.
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