The Enigma of Capital: And the Crises of Capitalism

by David Harvey

Book Overview

For over forty years, David Harvey has been one of the world's most trenchant and critical analysts of capitalist development. In The Enigma of Capital, he delivers an impassioned account of how unchecked neoliberalism produced the system-wide crisis that now engulfs the world.

Beginning in the 1970s, profitability pressures led the capitalist class in advanced countries to shift away from investment in industrial production at home toward...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199758719
• ISBN13: 9780199758715
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"