Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism

出版者:Oxford University Press

作者:David Harvey

页数:352

出版时间:2014-4-4

价格:USD 24.95

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780199360260

具体描述

"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.

作者简介

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.

目录信息

Preface: On Contradiction
Part I: The Foundational Contradictions
1 Use-Value and Exchange Value
2 Social Value and its Representation (Money)
3 Logics of State and Market
4 Social Production and Private Appropriation
5 Capital and Labor: The Contradiction of Class
6 Processes and Things
7 Production and Realization
Part II: The Moving Contradictions of Capital
8 Technology, Work, and the Disposability of Human Labor
9 Competition and Monopoly
10 Uneven Geographical Developments
11 Poverty and Wealth
12 Social Reproduction
13 Identity and Difference
14 Freedom and Domination
Part III: The Fatal Contradictions
15 Endless Compound Growth: Beyond the Exponentials?
16 The Metabolic Relation to Nature
17 The Revolt of Human Nature: Universal Alienation and its Antidotes
Prospects for a Happy Future: Co-Evolution Through Perpetual Revolution
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读后感

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...

一． 危机 1.如马克思所言，全球危机一直是“资本主义经济所有矛盾的真正集中和强制调整”.危机是资本主义再造所必要的，人们在危机中更新升级资本主义。这种升级和更新不仅体现在物质景观的变化，如小区的改造，工厂的翻新，大楼的修建上，更体现在思维方式，制度与意识形态，...  

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...

David Harvey's book Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism begins with the root of that crisis: the contradiction between use value and the exchange values, particularly in terms of housing. One by one, he pointed out 17 contradictions (falling...  

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...  

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