While the biggest financial crisis unleashed since the Great Depression shows no signs of coming to an end, Marx's peak work remains key in any serious attempt to understand the cycles and fluctuations of capitalist economies. For more than forty years David Harvey has written and given lectures on Capital, to the point of becoming one of the best connoisseurs of Marx's work.
On the basis of his recent conferences, and after the success of the guide dedicated to the first book of the three that make up Capital, this time Harvey faces the second volume with the aim of guiding a wide audience - also those they face for the first time the Marxian work - because of the vericuets of a fascinating and often poorly known text.
While the book first focused on production, the second volume of Marx's colossal trilogy examines how value is created by buying and selling merchandise. Harvey also introduces elements of the third book - on credit and financing - to illustrate aspects of the current crisis.

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Richard Sennett

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