David Harvey's Blog

La acelerada producción del capitalismo provoca deshumanización y deterioro ambiental: David Harvey
por Sebastián Campos Rivera
Buzos de la noticia
Abr 15, 2026

David Harvey desata furor en la UNAM: la vigencia de la lucha contra el capitalismo
por Gloria López
El Sol de México
Abr 16, 2026

David Harvey en la UNAM
por Guillermo Hurtado
La Razón
Abr 18, 2026

La IA da la razón a un veterano marxista
por David Marcial Pérez
El Pais
Abr 19, 2026

Entrevista a David Harvey: Las universidades, base del pensamiento
por Diana Saavedra    
Gaceta UNAM
Abr 20, 2026

Enterrar el capitalismo, sentenció el geógrafo y teórico marxista británico David Harvey
La Crónica de Chihuahua
Abr 21, 2026

Live from the UNAM Exhibition and Congress Center, presented by the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters as part of the International Congress “Mexico at the Global Crossroads.”

Professor Harvey’s remarks begin at 44:25.

Professor Harvey’s remarks (which begin at 32:40) are in English, while the rest of the event is in Spanish.

Professor Harvey’s remarks (which begin at 32:40) are in English, while the rest of the event is in Spanish.

“In The Story of Capital David Harvey returns once more to Karl Marx’s Capital, exploring the importance of rent-and-interest-bearing capital neglected in orthodox Marxism. Praising Harvey’s accessible, authoritative analysis of accumulation and crisis patterns, Ann Pettifor deems the book essential reading for understanding the finance capitalism that supersedes traditional industrial production today.”

Read the review.

The Marxist in Residence: an interview with David Harvey
March 27, 2026

Ira and Rudy join renowned geographer David Harvey for a chat on his pedagogy and his theories of economics, neoliberalism and imperialism.

Listen here

Join us for the book launch at The People’s Forum featuring David Harvey and discussant Adam Tooze.

David Harvey’s new book, The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works, has been published by Verso Press.

Over the decades, David Harvey has won the acclaim of students and academics for his teaching of Marx’s work, with a particular focus on Capital. Chapter by chapter – sometimes line by line – he has analysed and expatiated on Marx’s three volumes and the Grundrisse. Now in The Story of Capital, this mental universe, populated by observations gleaned from a lifetime of scholarship, becomes accessible to the general reader.

David Harvey is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology & Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), the Director of Research at the Center for Place, Culture and Politics, and the author of numerous books. He has been teaching Karl Marx’s Capital for over 50 years.

Adam Tooze is the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor of History at Columbia University. He teaches and researches widely in the fields of twentieth-century and contemporary history. From a start in modern German history with a special focus on the history of economics and economic history his interests have widened to take in a range of themes in political, intellectual and military history, across a canvas stretching from Europe across the Atlantic. His most recent book was Shutdown: How Covid Shook the World’s Economy (2021).

Monday, March 30 at 6:30 pm

The People’s Forum
320 West 37th Street
New York, NY

Free Registration

Available from Verso Books

I have spent my life interpreting capitalism in order to build an alternative

By David Harvey

In November 2008, at the height of the global financial crisis, Queen Elizabeth visited the London School of Economics. In the course of this visit she asked the assembled economists why they had not seen the financial crisis coming. Not having any immediate answers, the economists consulted and ran seminars. Six months later they sent a collective letter to Her Majesty explaining that some mix of hubris and failure to confront systemic risks lay at the root of their failures. Neglecting systemic risks appears particularly egregious. Most of us would not choose to board an airplane that had not been checked for systemic risks.

My new book, The Story of Capital, seeks to interrogate the internal malfunctions and systemic risks within capital’s mode of production, but it does so with the aid of rather special theoretical tools drawn from Marx’s work on the political economy of capital. While Marx famously proclaimed that our aim should not be to understand the world but to change it, he put an enormous amount of time and effort into understanding that which he sought to change. Indeed, his practice suggests that he believed it vital to understand capital in order to change it.

Read the full article at The New Statesman