The Enigma of Capital: and the Crises of Capitalism

By Cameron Whitley. 2011

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The Internet of Landlords: Digital Platforms and New Mechanisms of Rentier Capitalism (2020, background): “The dual growth of platforms and ﬁ nance illustrates the fact that, as political economists and geographers have argued, contemporary capitalism is “ increasingly underpinned by rentiership or the appropriation of value through ownership and control rights ” (Birch 2020:3; Harvey 2010).”
Contextualising land grabbing: contemporary land deals, the global subsistence crisis and the world food system (2012, positive): “This economic appropriation is market-led and is similar to what has been called by David Harvey (2010, pp. 48–9) ‘accumulation by dispossession.’”
Research, part of a Special Feature on Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Global Environmental Change Biocultural Refugia: Combating the Erosion of Diversity in Landscapes of Food Production (2013, background): “More thorough analysis and critique of the dynamics of the global food system are needed (McMichael 2009, 2011, Norgaard 2010, Harvey 2010).”
World cities under conditions of financialized globalization (2015, background): “Both crises can be considered as different expressions of a general crisis of overaccumulation, even though the barriers to capital realization are currently very different (Harvey, 2010).”
Climate change, tourist air travel and radical emissions reduction (2016, background): “Attempts to explain this failure have addressed the freedom of choice that is central to contemporary neoliberal western lifestyles (Harvey, 2011), which encourages unrestrained consumption of the products of global capitalism (Urry, 2010).”
CRISIS, AUSTERITY AND OPPOSITION IN MAINSTREAM MEDIA DISCOURSES OF GREECE (2014, methodology): “Such catastrophes include the augmentation of debt and dependency to foreign credit, the sellout of public infrastructures, the abolishing of social, labor and political rights, or the massive pauperization, death and immizeration (Harvey, 2010; Kara, 2009; Klein, 2007).”
Rural entrepreneurship or entrepreneurship in the rural – between place and space (2015, background): “Rural places offer certain ‘location-specific advantages’ in the form of the material, social and cultural amenities (Harvey, 2010; Müller, 2013).”
‘Like gold with yield’: evolving intersections between farmland and finance (2014, background): “Harvey (2010) sees the land grab as a way to sop up excess capital; when opportunities for investment at home are limited, new parts of the global economy are brought into capitalism’s embrace, providing a ‘spatial fix’ for the crisis.”
The Prerequisites for a Degrowth Paradigm Shift: Insights from Critical Political Economy (2018, background): “A host of other actual or impending crises can be mentioned (see, e.g., Brand and Wissen, 2012; Harvey, 2010; Robinson, 2014).”
Saluting while the ship sinks: the necessity for tourism paradigm change (2018, neutral): “Despite substantial criticism (Harvey, 2007, 2011; Heynen, McCarthy, Prudham, & Robbins, 2007; Mosedale, 2016), so pervasive has neo-liberalism become that it is typically taken-for-granted by governments, industry and citizens globally and particularly in Western society – a doxa, or an…”
The limits of transparency: Data brokers and commodification (2018, background): “…have been characterized as responses to the recurrent problem of overproduction, which is manifested in part by the relentless need to create and maintain consumer demand for the torrent of products and services produced by a capitalist economy dependent upon perpetual growth (Harvey, 1982, 2010).”
Factors Affecting Higher Order Thinking Skills of Students: A Meta-Analytic Structural Equation Modeling Study. (2015, background): “This often results in more valuable outcomes, which can be used or applied to problem solving or effective performance (Sternberg and Lubart, 1999; Harvey, 2010).”
The politics of global production: Apple, Foxconn and China's new working class (2013, background): “Multinationals have reduced, if not eliminated, major barriers to capital mobility across spaces of uneven development (Harrison, 1997; Harvey, 2010).”
The rise of flex crops and commodities: implications for research (2016, background): “Faced with insufficient demand for their products and declining profits, US and European enterprises redirected their surplus capital from productive activities to financial markets (Arrighi 1994; Harvey 2010).”