David Harvey

Quotes

• “The dominant notion of rationality is a capitalist notion of rationality, that is, whatever is profitable, whatever can be organised in terms of social control of labour-power and control of natural resources.”
• “Any sensible person right now would join an organisation.”
• “The net worth of the 358 richest people in the world was then found to be 'equal to the combined income of the poorest 45 per cent of the worlds population - 2.3 billion people.'”
• “Capital creates space-time.”
• “Massive concentration of financial power, accompanied by the machinations of finance capital, can as easily de-stabilize as stabilize capitalism.”
• “The invocation of social necessity should alert us. It contains the seeds for Marx's critique of political economy as well as for his dissection of capitalism.”

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Key facts

Born

David William Harvey , ( 1935-10-31 ) 31 October 1935 (age 90) , Gillingham, Kent , England

Alma mater

St John's College, Cambridge

Known for

Marxist geography , quantitative revolution in geography , critical geography , economic anthropology , political anthropology , right to the city , time space compression , accumulation by dispossession

Fields

Anthropology , geography, political economy , social theory

Institutions

CUNY Graduate Center

Thesis

Aspects of agricultural and rural change in Kent, 1800–1900 (1961)

Doctoral advisor

Richard Chorley

Doctoral students

Andy Merrifield

Website

davidharvey .org

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Wikidata facts

Official website

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