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Yea that is a good video, thx for the link. -
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Thanx -extremely well done -very entertaining
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This was posted by member Rajiv a few months ago in the video section.Originally posted by oddlots View PostComment
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That's a video animation by David Harvey of a speech of his, which can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26o22Y33h9s
A Google search for David Harveyuncovers more of his extensive work to analyze and bring to a wider audience a better understanding, in a broader context, of the global economic, social, natural and technological systems of human civilization, their problems and how we might restructure them in this time of crisis.
P.S. -- I composed this reply before reading Rajiv's reply above.Most folks are good; a few aren't.Comment
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David Harvey has another book coming out in September 2010 on these topics The Enigma of Capital: and the Crises of Capitalism
P.S. -- Looking at Harvey's Bibliography on Amazon shows us that Harvey seemingly always has another book coming out
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Most folks are good; a few aren't.Comment
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One more -very nice by the same people
http://www.youtube.com/user/VPROinternational#p/u
Quants: The Alchemists of Wall Street (Marije Meerman, VPRO Backlight 201Comment
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One critique.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge ~D BoorstinComment
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But why worry about facts and logic when you can just watch the slick presentation and just assume that everything checks out?Originally posted by reggie View PostComment
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Thanks. That's a non-awesome video.
Honestly I can see lots to discuss about Harvey's presentation but I'm kind of amazed that you could come up with a critique that doesn't touch on any of them.
Much of what Harvey discusses is echoed in the analysis of what has gone wrong by almost every commentator from E.J. (excessive influence of finance) to Elizabeth Warren (wealth disparity and the hollowing out of the middle class.) What does this guy think the "global imbalances" discussion is about? Does he really think that it's unproblematic from even an operational perspective that income is increasingly being concentrated in the top 1 or 2 % of the population? (I'll leave aside the idea that he thinks Harvey is envious of anyone. Harvey's obvious unstated premise is that profits in finance are increasingly precisely at the expense of others, that is, parasitic and not productive. He's hardly alone in this analysis. Barry Ritholtz and a thousand other engaged market commentators decry the fact that finance now represents ~ 40 % of S & P profits.)
For god's sake the guy's more reductionist and utopian than any Marxist I've encountered.Comment
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What is the "new social order" that David Harvey wants to give us?
I certainly hope it is not this.The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge ~D BoorstinComment
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