Einzelstück 40 - Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism

In this incisive account of what is happening around us, David Harvey, one of the world's leading Marxist thinkers, unravels the paradoxes at the heart of capitalism - ist drive, for example, to accumulate capital beyond the means of investing it; its imperative to use labour-saving technologies that leave consumers bereft of adequate means of consumption; and its compulsion to exploit nature to the point of extinction. Such are the tensions that underpin the persistence of mass unemployment, the downward spirals of Europe and Japan, and China's and India's unstable lurches in unpredictable directions. [...] (Klappentext)