David Harvey

The main substantive achievement of neoliberalism has been to redistribute rather than to generate wealth and income.

— David Harvey

We're supposed to live under capitalism, and capitalism is supposed to be competitive so you would expect that capitalists and entrepreneurs would…

— David Harvey

There is, in short, no 'spatial fix' that can contain the contradictions of capitalism in the long run.

— David Harvey

The social relations of capitalism have penetrated slowly into all spheres of life to make wage labour the general condition of existence…

— David Harvey

If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal…

— David Harvey

“This left, which strangely echoes a libertarian and even neoliberal ethic of ant-statism, is nurtured intellectually by thinkers such as Michel Foucault…

— David Harvey

If, for example, a conspiratorially minded elite is so powerful, has at its fingertips such multiple and delicate instruments with which to…

— David Harvey

The equilibrium between supply and demand is achieved only through a reaction against the upsetting of the equilibrium.

— David Harvey

“In urbanisation, the suburbs are just as monocultural (as agriculture), with a lifestyle that maximises the excessive consumption of material goods in…

— David Harvey

“Since the 1970S, financial innova­tions such as the securitisation of mortgage debt and the spreading of investment risks through the creation of…

— David Harvey

The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour.

— David Harvey

The accumulation of capital involves the expansion of value over time.

— David Harvey

Monetary relations have penetrated into every nook and cranny of the world and into almost every aspect of social, even private life.

— David Harvey

The net worth of the 358 richest people in the world was then found to be 'equal to the combined income of…

— David Harvey

Not only must weapons be bought and paid for out of surpluses of capital and labour, but they must also be put…

— David Harvey

There's a difference between an outburst of spontaneous anger, which doesn't have a political objective, and a more measured response that we…

— David Harvey

“The common-sense notion that 'There is a time and place for everything' gets carried into a set of prescriptions which replicate the…

— David Harvey

There are signs, these days, that the cultural hegemony of postmodernism is weakening in the West. When even the developers tell an…

— David Harvey

People must get active; go outside; get moving. This is a crucial time. You know, massive wealth and capital haven't budged one…

— David Harvey

Capital creates space-time.

— David Harvey

“The main substantive achievement of neoliberalization, however, has been to redistribute, rather than to generate, wealth and income. …[T]his was achieved under…

— David Harvey

Perpetual revolutions in technology can mean the devaluation of fixed capital on an extensive scale.

— David Harvey

“The coup that overthrew President Chavez of Venezuela in April 2002 was greeted with euphoria in Washington. The new president—a businessman—was instantly…

— David Harvey

Because the earth is not a product of labour it cannot have a value.

— David Harvey

The geographical movement of money and commodities as capital is not the same as the movements of products and of precious metals.…

— David Harvey