Review: Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason. By David Harvey.

Abstract

After the 2008 global financial crisis, many have gone back to Karl Marx’s works in search for answers or remedies. Very few have done this, though, with the insight of David Harvey. The difference lies with the latter’s astonishing experience on the subject: for over five decades, Harvey has been studying and teaching Marx’s writings, inspiring generations of students and academics not only in his home fields of (critical) geography and anthropology but also in multiple others across the humanities and the social sciences (see Times Higher Education 2009). His interpretation of the German philosopher, political economist, and revolutionary is rigorous, creative, and accessible.