RSA Animate – Crisis of Capitalism

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  • Social enterprise
  • Behaviour change

In this short RSA Animate, radical sociologist David Harvey asks if it is time to look beyond capitalism, towards a new social order that would allow us to live within a system that could be responsible, just and humane. View his full lecture at the RSA. Download a transcript of this video (pdf).

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  • из ккапитализма социализм не получиться.

  • Is it possible to obtain a digitalized photograph of that drawing? Would be looking great on my wall.

  • This is brilliant. Starting at 7:55 covers the content of about 1200 pages of Capital in 30 seconds. Hilarious pictures. Who is the artist?!

  • oi! Harvey is a GEOGRAPHER! not a sociologist. Well, geographical-materialist, to be precise.

  • I was sitting in classes taught by David Harvey five years ago in which he was quite explicitly predicting a global financial crisis precipitated by a collapse of the housing market. You might want to read a book or two of his before you pass judgement. (And yes, I've read Hayek and Von Mises.) The idea that the Austrians are "marginalized" is preposterous. They are lionized in Econ Departments around the world and popularized versions of their ideas are routinely peddled on every TV network.