David Harvey Lecture at Cornell (Part 1 of 10)

SPACES OF GLOBAL CAPITALISM: TOWARDS A THEORY OF UNEVEN GEOGRAPHICAL DEVELOPMENT

*DAVID HARVEY*

David Harvey is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate
Center of the City University of New York. He was for many years
Professor of Geography at Johns Hopkins University and from 1987 to 1993
was Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at Oxford University.
Harvey is the author of numerous books including /Spaces of Hope; Paris:
Capital of Modernity; The New Imperialism; A Brief History of
Neoliberalism; and Spaces of Global Capitalism. /He is a recipient of
several international awards and was recently elected to the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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SPACE, PLACE AND DEVELOPMENT LECTURE SERIES

Sponsored by CITY & REGIONAL PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT SOCIOLOGY. Co-sponsored by the Polson Institute for Global Development

Thursday March 13, 2008 4:30 PM
Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium Goldwin Smith Hall

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[CajunCommie]

No, see, capitalism is perfect, and fell directly out of God's butt through Ayn Rand's mouth. It follows then if there are poor people they are poor through there own personal failure. Any patterns to the poverty are just an illusion perpetuated by liberal professors for the sole purpose of getting rich and guilting white people for some reason.

[pilkingtonphil]

I'd implore anyone who finds the notion of the reclaiming of the city and the aesthetics of man made surroundings generally to look into the work of another Marxist, Walter Benjamin, who went a long way in trying to establish what Harvey terms the "dialectic of man and the city". A worthy cause, to be sure...

[ciaran1123]

@CajunCommie THAT was a fabulous comment

[warriorprince1010]

@dharmaatdawn No idea what you are talking about. The state has a job to regulate and educate, not to run all businesses and decide what people need.

[dharmaatdawn]

@warriorprince1010 So Indian pharm industry cannot try to figure out a smarter new way to develop the drug at lower cost for their population. this is against ECONOMIC EFFICIENCY and technological development the principles that Capitalism supp. stands for. So u tell me how many ppl have died and will die from cancer, infections dx that easily treatable.. So im asking u why so much 'protectionism in so called "free market" that goes against efficiency, innovation, growth and COMPETITION??

[dharmaatdawn]

@warriorprince1010 Theres no communism in Australia how come their government negotiates the drug prices for their citizens? How come u thing theres health care cost are highest than in any country its not bc we have the BEST medicine, this is ideological bullshit. its bc this government doesnt negotiate the prices for monopoly pharm comp. And forces 3rd world countries to buy drugs at full cost. Futhermore, "free trade agreements" have so called "process patents" which means coutn. like India

[dharmaatdawn]

@warriorprince1010 It was a deliberate decision to deinstrialize to convert to finance so they dont have to do anything just speculate, and having the ppl to bail them out once they fail. They decided after 1970 that they werent getting enough profit and since the capital back then wasnt easily movable they made it so by financialisation of the economy. US is the ONLY developed country that cannot negotiate drug prices( they do negotiate for the vets) w pharm industry.

[dharmaatdawn]

@warriorprince1010 U say better education for all, but then u say lower taxes. how u gonna fund u better education? Second. u say higher wages. if u understand principles of capitalism ull understand they dont wanna pay u higher wages. in fact they very comfy with slave labor in other places of the world. the golden era of capitalism, as it was here in around 1960 1970, when capitalism gave good living wages for us is over. they deindustrialized the county turning it into financial "economy"

[dexblue]

Only delicate innocent child-like minds bloated on freedom as a raisin is in a large ball of dough can rapsodize about Marxism as you all do here...I'll take a wild guess and say that none of you live in Cuba...cheers little darlings

[phunkblister1]

@busybuzzbuzz yes, and when you get to heaven it is noisier

[phunkblister1]

@dexblue *century

[warriorprince1010]

@raptorkiller2k5 In no country is there no state. Someone would put themselves in charge and dominate the people, always has happened.