Professor David Harvey - The Contradictions of Capital

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qy5Vh4uXp4M&list=UUCT15s8fKYcquEB1zJ8a50A

David Harvey is the Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is a leading political economist and social theorist of international standing. He is a highly cited academic and the author of many books and essays. Professor Harvey received his BA, MA and PhD from Cambridge University and was formerly Professor of Geography at John Hopkins University, Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography at the University of Oxford and Senior Research Fellow at St Peter's College Oxford.

His numerous awards include Outstanding Contributor Award of the Association of American Geographers, the Centenary Medal from the Royal Scottish Geographical Society and the Patron's Medal of the Royal Geographical Society for contributions to critical human geography.