Consequences of our current world economic system

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Interview with well-respected scholar David Harvey on the world economic crisis

from CUNY's web page:

"David Harvey's appointment [as Distinguished Professor] confirms CUNY's Ph.D. Program in Anthropology as the premiere destination for the anthropological study of global urban issues...Harvey, who earned all of his degrees at Cambridge University in England, is the author of several milestones in his field, notably Explanation in Geography, Social Justice and the City, Limits of Capital, The Condition of Postmodernity, and, most recently, Nature and the Geography of Difference. His work has been called "the single most important, influential, and imaginative contribution to the development of human geography since World War II."

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From Democracy Now, April 2, 2009

Marxist Geographer David Harvey on the G20, the Financial Crisis, and Neo-Liberalism

For some analysis on the G-20 summit and the financial crisis we speak to a leading thinker on the global economy. David Harvey is a Marxist geographer and distinguished professor of anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of several books including “The Limits to Capital” and “A Brief History of Neoliberalism.”