79 Quotes by David Harvey

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

When money functions as measure of value it must truly represent the values it helps to circulate.

There's a difference between an outburst of spontaneous anger, which doesn't have a political objective, and a more measured response that we saw in the Occupy Wall Street movement.

Individual capitalists, in short, behave in such a way as to threaten the conditions that permit the reproduction of the capitalist class.

If Occupy Wall Street can see their way to more collaboration with the union movement, then there will be a great deal of political action possible.

Massive concentration of financial power, accompanied by the machinations of finance capital , can as easily de-stabilize as stabilize capitalism.

The onset of a crisis is usually triggered by a spectacular failure which shakes confidence in fictitious forms of capital.

the net effect of increasing scale, centralization of capital, vertical integration and diversification within the corporate form of enterprise has been to replace the 'invisible hand' of the market by the 'visible hand' of the managers.

The capacity to transform itself from the inside makes capitalism a somewhat peculiar beast - chameleon-like, it perpetually changes it colour; snake-like, it periodically sheds its skin.