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The Dig: David Harvey on Capital

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Exploring the Three Volumes of Capital by Marx

The chapter provides an in-depth analysis of how Karl Marx's Capital is divided into three volumes, focusing on production, circulation, and distribution processes of capital. It discusses the significance of understanding all three volumes to grasp Marx's conception fully, despite challenges like incomplete manuscripts and less stimulating content in volumes two and three. The chapter further delves into concepts like bad infinity, monetary expansion, role of money and credit, spatial fixes in capitalism, impacts of economic crises on people, and concerns about the growing debt economy in contemporary capitalism.

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