"What I am seeking here is a better understanding of the contradictions of capital, not of capitalism. I want to know how the economic engine of capitalism works the way it does, and why it might stutter and stall and sometimes appear to be on the verge of collapse. I also want to show why this economic engine should be replaced, and with what." --from the Introduction
To modern Western society, capitalism is the air we breathe, and most people rarely think to question it, for good or for ill. But knowing what makes capitalism work--and what makes it fail--is crucial to understanding its long-term health, and the vast implications for the global economy that go along with it.
In Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism, the eminent scholar David Harvey, author of A Brief History of Neoliberalism, examines the internal contradictions within the flow of capital that have precipitated recent crises. He contends that while the contradictions have made capitalism flexible and resilient, they also contain the seeds of systemic catastrophe. Many of the contradictions are manageable, but some are fatal: the stress on endless compound growth, the necessity to exploit nature to its limits, and tendency toward universal alienation. Capitalism has always managed to extend the outer limits through "spatial fixes," expanding the geography of the system to cover nations and people formerly outside of its range. Whether it can continue to expand is an open question, but Harvey thinks it unlikely in the medium term future: the limits cannot extend much further, and the recent financial crisis is a harbinger of this.
David Harvey has long been recognized as one of the world's most acute critical analysts of the global capitalist system and the injustices that flow from it. In this book, he returns to the foundations of all of his work, dissecting and interrogating the fundamental illogic of our economic system, as well as giving us a look at how human societies are likely to evolve in a post-capitalist world.
David Harvey is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is among the top twenty most cited authors in the humanities and is the world's most cited academic geographer. His books include The Limits to Capital, Social Justice and the City, and The Condition of Postmodernity, among many others.
大卫哈维作为当代《资本论》最权威的研究者,试图通过总结资本社会的17个矛盾来揭开当今资本主义社会发展所存在的种种问题,可以说这些问题短期内不会动摇到资本主义的根基,但是如果不及时反思改革,难说资本主义经历这么多年的发展,矛盾一步一步扩大,进而威胁到资本体系的...
评分斯蒂格利茨曾说过:“自1500年以来,世界上就有两种累计财富的方式,一种是靠辛勤劳动,一种是欺诈掠夺。”中国的成功代表了前一种方式,而后一种则是西方的资本主义。马克思认为社会主义将在资本主义发展到不能再发展的时候,代表一种全新的生产方式,和与适合该关系的阶层或...
评分作者涉猎广泛,引经据典,和马克思一样t提出了不少改良社会的建议,但几乎没有让人(我)觉得有任何一条建议是可以切实可行使人类到达理想的社会形态而不同时产生巨大副作用的。 甚至觉得作者对资本主义的理解也显得片面(也可能是我受哈耶克与弗里德曼毒害已深)。
评分資本社會確實存在許多嚴重的問題,本書作者對於資本所生矛盾的分析,多半是事實,其中關於房地產的例子又特別引我深思。但問題是,它對解決資本現實的矛盾所提示的方法卻又很空泛,有點淪落於左派革命運動常見的狹隘見解裡。而本書另一缺點,則是它在部份篇幅的文字過於糾結而...
评分这本书解决了我这些年来心里绝大部分的困惑,因此我想,无论如何形容它对我的意义都不为过。 我不理解iPhone为什么每年要出新款,口红为什么要有520个色号,不理解为什么颜值突变为一个产业,朋友圈变成摄影大赛现场,“顺义妈妈”为什么不知疲倦,中产阶级摆脱不了中年危机,...
albeit many of the areas marx stipulated in his unfinished vast analytical project of Das Kapital and its externalities arent being covered, harvey applies marx's conceptual apparatus in analysing the current global capitalist crisis and its urge for remedies if the global system needed to be sustained, even a non-marxist will enjoy reading it
评分我对资本主义没有这么深的成见,但是他真的很有深度
评分albeit many of the areas marx stipulated in his unfinished vast analytical project of Das Kapital and its externalities arent being covered, harvey applies marx's conceptual apparatus in analysing the current global capitalist crisis and its urge for remedies if the global system needed to be sustained, even a non-marxist will enjoy reading it
评分albeit many of the areas marx stipulated in his unfinished vast analytical project of Das Kapital and its externalities arent being covered, harvey applies marx's conceptual apparatus in analysing the current global capitalist crisis and its urge for remedies if the global system needed to be sustained, even a non-marxist will enjoy reading it
评分豆瓣8.0你们在开玩笑,满分10分我打500分,难以想象我读了一本如此枯燥却如此牛逼的作品,目测书评要写半个月。
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