David Harvey

Independent activity Western Marxism 1935.10.31.–

Geographer who founded Marxist urban geography and analysed the 2008 crisis in The Enigma of Capital

Born in Gillingham, Kent, and educated at St John's College, Cambridge, Harvey is a British-American academic and Distinguished Professor of anthropology and geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Social Justice and the City (1973) made him the leader of Marxist urban geography, and The Limits to Capital (1982) extended Marxist theory on money and finance and the "spatial moment" of crisis formation. He analysed neoliberalism as the restoration of class power through "accumulation by dispossession", and in The Enigma of Capital (2010) took a long view of how capitalism led to the 2008 financial crisis. His lecture course on Marx's Capital is also widely known.

Also known as: David William Harvey