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  • Hardcover: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press; 1 edition (April 4, 2014)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 019936026X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0199360260
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5.0 out of 5 stars"Contradictions have the nasty habit of not being resolved but merely moved around."
By J. Edgar Mihelic, MBA on April 21, 2014
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In this new book, Harvey explores 17 different contradictions - not in the sense of opposition, but contradiction where "two seemingly opposed forces are simultaneously present" (1), such as reality and appearance. These contradictions are both points of strengths and weaknesses for Harvey (and others in the Marxian tradition). He divides up the contradictions he identifies into Foundation, Moving, and Dangerous types, and explains how each of the 17 titular contradictions work in Capital's system.

Truth be told, I don't want to get analytical here. I was just chugging along, and finding Harvey's points of consonance until I got to the end. If you like Harvey, you will like this book. It wasn't as accessible as his earlier "Enigma of Capital," in my opinion. You may need a minute to get with his style, but he is very exact with his wordings.

My main take-away is that in the face of even 17 contradictions, capital is not going to fall in on itself. The grave-diggers still need to dig. That is bad news for me because I am normally so passive. Perhaps I should stop trying to understand the world and maybe go change it. Or Maybe tomorrow.

By this point, I have read enough David Harvey to know his house style. Loquacious in person, his prose can feel torturous at times. That's not a critique per se, but an acknowledgement of Harvey's desire to be exact in his language. It also brings about sentences of absolute beauty from time to time. You just have to be on the alert for them. I flagged a couple, but I won't drop them in here without context. I'll just point you to pages 91, 125, 130, and also the title of the review.
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4.0 out of 5 starsCapitalism contradictions
By James Pitre on April 21, 2014
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David is an excellent scholar and has an in-depth understanding of economics in its broadest sense that matches the best that the world has to offer. His insightful views of many of the most glaring contradictions inherent in the capitalist system are explained in simple terms that gave me a fresh and simplified way to make better sense of the massive quantity of data swirling around us today. The book could easily be rated 5 stars, however I dropped it to 4 stars because the solutions offered at the end of the book seem to me to be a letdown after the insightful description of the problems and contradictions explained in the first 95% of the book. This often happens in extreme complex systems when there are no clear solutions from any source even after the problems are clearly defined. David makes a good try at answers, but unfortunately for us all, we are a work in progress with no clearly defined path to follow - this book lays out many of the areas that we all need to address and it is my fervent hope that with enough of us on task, we will find the way to our next level if civilization.. David has done/is doing his part.
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4.0 out of 5 starsDavid Harvey: AMERICAN CRITIC
By Michael Fay on December 31, 2014
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David Harvey is one of thr informed academic critics working in The United States today. The analysis is more than the ideologies originated with Karl Marx and the Twentieth Century "neo-Marxism" schools of thought. Dr. Harvey is a member of the anthropology and geography fields both as an academic teacher and researcher spanning the last half ot the Twenieth and beginning years of the Twentieth-First Centuries. It can be said That Dr. Harvey is a "secular humanist--for what ever pupose this might mean in Contemporary society. "Capital", the system, is the subject explored in the book or rather the underlying question is whether is it necessary for Americans to "live" the capitalist's localized free enterprise view.

Dr. Harvey views the reproduction of capitalism in the requirment that crisises and contradictions are essential. Capitalism in History is not static; it displays instabilities. The instabilities are the responses or the "antithesises" borrowed from the Hegalian, Marx-Engels, and Neo-Marxists model world views to the crisises described in the book. Dr. Harvey's view on cultural contradictions that are found to be essential are from the philosophical humanist vent and not of the Hegalian mechanical algorithm model of cyclical revolving pattern:"Thesis > Antithesis > Thesis [reccurrance historical change/transition (the Dialectic)]". The "Layman's" view is that David Harvey in the book is leaning torward the supremacy of citizens' consumers' rights over the power of the Capitalism social controls' methodologies. The final question is whether Capitalism with its crisises and contradictions will end in a "civilized" matter is dependent on the "secular humanist" global community's response. Dr.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsSeventeen Contradictions Review
By Trevor Neal on November 23, 2014
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'The Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism' has to be one of the most prophetic books since 'The Limits to Growth.' Employing a Marxist perspective, the author, Dr. David Harvey looks at capitalism systematically in an attempt to discover how crises such as the recession of 2008 originate. He goes on to expose the contradictions at the heart of capitalism. In doing so he has discovered that instead of facing its crises head on, capitalism moves them around.

Summarizing, Dr. Harvey breaks the 17 contradictions down into 3 categories which include seven foundation contradictions, seven moving contradictions, and three dangerous contradictions. Even though he categorizes the contradictions in order to analyze them better, he cautions us readers to view the contradictions as interlinked with each other, illustrating how an analysis of capitalism needs to employ a systematic perspective.

Beginning with an analysis of the ingredients that led to the recession, Dr. Harvey discourses on use value, exchange value, their impact on housing, and how speculation in the exchange value of housing led to a crises that almost rocked capitalism at its foundations. Continuing with an analysis of the other foundation contradictions he discusses capital and labor, private property, and production.

His category of 'moving contradictions' include social trends, cycles, and geographic moves. For example, if a company moves its factory to Mexico in order to capitalize on cheaper labor this is considered a moving contradiction. Technological changes, automation and its displacement of labor, changes in wealth disparity, and uneven geographic development were also considered to be 'moving contradictions.Read more ›
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