{"title":"The Enigma of Capital by David Harvey. London: Profile Books. 2010","authors":"A. Rosie","doi":"10.11120/elss.2010.03010006","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"David Harvey’s work is well known to social scientists throughout the world. For economists in particular, who may feel that the teaching of neoliberal economic theory is still important, this will be a challenging read. But the book will also be a challenge for anyone in a university social science department who feels that what they do is important in its own right and the economic downturn and its effects are not directly their business. Towards the end of the book, Harvey bitingly comments:","PeriodicalId":147930,"journal":{"name":"Enhancing Learning in the Social Sciences","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2010-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"13","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Enhancing Learning in the Social Sciences","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.11120/elss.2010.03010006","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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David Harvey’s work is well known to social scientists throughout the world. For economists in particular, who may feel that the teaching of neoliberal economic theory is still important, this will be a challenging read. But the book will also be a challenge for anyone in a university social science department who feels that what they do is important in its own right and the economic downturn and its effects are not directly their business. Towards the end of the book, Harvey bitingly comments: