{"product_id":"the-story-of-capital-isbn-9781836742111","title":"The Story of Capital","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe world's leading Marxist geographer and economist guides general readers through major concepts in capitalism and Marx's masterwork\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor decades, David Harvey has been teaching Marx's work, particularly \u003ci\u003eCapital\u003c\/i\u003e, to great acclaim. He has analysed chapter by chapter - sometimes line-by-line - Marx's three volumes and the \u003ci\u003eGrundrisse\u003c\/i\u003e. This new book opens up the mental universe of that work for a general reader.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Story of Capital\u003c\/i\u003e, Harvey takes a  synoptic approach to the conceptual architecture as a whole and guides us through the key moments, from labour and technology to the state and geopolitics, via the profit rate, social reproduction, the relationship to nature, fictitious capital and the return of the rentiers. In doing so, Harvey has produced a work which will become a key reference for all those trying to grasp the nature of contemporary capitalism.INTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 1. PROLOGUE: A MENTAL MAP OF CAPITAL’S DOMAIN\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 2. THE CIRCULATION OF LABOR CAPACITY AND THE ORIGIN OF PROFIT\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 3. TECHNOLOGICAL DYNAMISM AND THE PRODUCTIVITY OF LABOUR\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 4. MARX IN MANCHESTER\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 5. THE FALLING RATE AND RISING MASS OF PROFIT\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 6. THE EQUALIZATION OF THE PROFIT RATE\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 7. MASSES IN MOTION\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 8. THE PRODUCTION OF SPACE, TIME AND PLACE\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 9. SOCIAL REPRODUCTION AND THE CIRCULATION OF LABOR POWER\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 10. EXTRACTIVISM AND THE METABOLIC RELATION TO NATURE\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 11. FIXED CAPITAL AND THE CONSUMPTION FUND\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 12. THE CIRCULATION OF INTEREST-BEARING CAPITAL\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 13. THE TROUBLESOME CASE OF FICTITIOUS CAPITAL\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 14: ACCUMULATION BY DISPOSSESSION\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 15. THE RETURN OF THE RENTIER\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 16: THE STATE-FINANCE NEXUS\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER 17. THE GEOPOLITICS OF CAPITAL\u003cbr\u003eAPPENDIX: On Sraffa's Tail\"David Harvey unites the impossible: a broad global theoretical approach to capitalism with detailed economic analyses. As every good dialectician, he knows how to recognize a general tendency in what appears as marginal accidents of economic daily life. His knowledge goes well beyond the generalities of commodity fetishism and capitalist exploitation of nature. Although often critical of Marx, he uses Marx to explain problems we are experiencing today, from 2008 meltdown to the return of rents and the implications of Trump’s playing with tariffs. His book is for everyone who wants to really understand the mess we are in, which means – it is for everyone.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Slavoj Žižek\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This terrific volume brings together several decades of Harvey’s original investigations of Marx’s work, and deploys them to illuminate many of our contemporary economic and social problems. One of his special talents is to analyze complex arguments in precise detail using clear and accessible language. A remarkable achievement.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Michael Hardt, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Subversive Seventies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Harvey’s ability to entangle the dense work and make it legible is unparalleled, and I’m looking forward to this new book about Marx’s influential economic text, and what Harvey has to teach about its lessons and shortcomings for our contemporary economics and society.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—James Folta, \u003ci\u003eLit Hub, Most Anticipated Books of 2026\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eDavid Harvey teaches at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and is the author of many books, including \u003ci\u003eSocial Justice and the City\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Condition of Postmodernity\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Limits to Capital\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Brief History of Neoliberalism\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSpaces of Global Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Companion to Marx's Capital\u003c\/i\u003e. His website is http:\/\/davidharvey.org","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233748529381,"sku":"NP9781836742111","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781836742111.jpg?v=1767741673","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-story-of-capital-isbn-9781836742111","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}