About

David
Harvey

David Harvey is Distinguished Professor of Geography and Anthropology at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York, New York. He works in the fields of anthropology, geography, Marxist studies, political-economy, urban studies, and cultural studies. For decades, Prof. Harvey has been dedicated to the production and transfer of critical knowledge: his online lectures on Marx’s Capital and his co-produced animation on the Crisis of Capitalism are widely popular. He has published 26 books, many of them influential pieces in the humanities, social sciences as well as art and design fields. Recent publications include Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason (2017); and The Ways of the World (2016). He is also the recipient of twelve honorary doctorates. This year he was granted the Leverhulme Gold Medal of the British Academy for Creative Contributions to the Social Sciences. Harvey lives and works in New York.