{"id":25418,"date":"2010-07-14T10:10:25","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T15:10:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=25418"},"modified":"2013-12-05T05:08:29","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T10:08:29","slug":"david-harvey-with-a-marxist-analysis-of-the-global-recession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/07\/14\/david-harvey-with-a-marxist-analysis-of-the-global-recession\/","title":{"rendered":"David Harvey’s Marxist Analysis of the Global Recession"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nSociologist<\/del> Geographer David Harvey’s analysis of the current economic crisis is engagingly illustrated in this 11-minute video.\u00a0 Harvey evaluates individual, institutional, ideological, cultural, and policy explanations for the recession.\u00a0 He then explains Marx’s insights into the “internal contradictions of capital accumulation”:\u00a0 capitalists want to pay low wages, but if they’re paying low wages, then no one can buy their stuff.\u00a0 If both high wages and low wages translate into no profits, where does that leave capitalism?<\/p>\n

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From Cognitive Media<\/a> via BoingBoing<\/a> and Karl Bakeman<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Buy Harvey’s book, The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sociologist Geographer David Harvey’s analysis of the current economic crisis is engagingly illustrated in this 11-minute video.\u00a0 Harvey evaluates individual, institutional, ideological, cultural, and policy explanations for the recession.\u00a0 He then explains Marx’s insights into the “internal contradictions of capital accumulation”:\u00a0 capitalists want to pay low wages, but if they’re paying low wages, then no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,229,36,64,85],"class_list":["post-25418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class","tag-consumption","tag-economics","tag-globalization","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25418"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59940,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25418\/revisions\/59940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}