A Companion to Marx's Capital

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The biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression has generated a surge of interest in Marx's work in the effort to understand the origins of our current predicament. For nearly forty years, David Harvey has written and lectured on Capital, becoming one of the world's foremost Marx scholars. Based on his recent lectures, this current volume aims to bring that depth of learning to a broader audience, guiding first-time readers through a fascinating and deeply rewarding text. A Companion to Marx's Capital offers fresh, original and sometimes critical interpretations of a book that changed the course of history and, as Harvey intimates, may do so again. Readers of this book might also enjoy David Harvey's lectures online.  Read more... Abstract: The radical geographer guides us through the classic text of political economy.  Read more... Content: Commodities and exchange -- Money -- From capital to labor power -- The labor process and the production of surplus value -- The working day -- Relative surplus-value -- What technology reveals -- Machinery and large-scale industry -- From absolute and relative surplus-value to the accumulation of capital -- Capitalist accumulation -- The secret of primitive accumulation -- Reflections and prognoses.