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Video: David Harvey presents The Story of Capital

In his latest book, the world's foremost Marxist geographer and economist takes us by the hand on a tour of contemporary capitalism.

Verso Books23 February 2026

Video: David Harvey presents The Story of Capital

 

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Over the decades, David Harvey has won the acclaim of students and academics for his teaching of Marx’s work, with a particular focus on Capital. Chapter by chapter – sometimes line by line – he has analysed and expatiated on Marx’s three volumes and the Grundrisse. Now in The Story of Capital, this mental universe, populated by observations gleaned from a lifetime of scholarship, becomes accessible to the general reader.

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