UNDERSTANDING GLOBAL RENTIER DEVELOPMENT IN DAVID HARVEY
Abstract
This paper discusses several situations and concepts by geographer David Harvey in respect to what is here called global rentier development. The concept was not proposed by Harvey, but it is useful to structure an understanding of today’s capitalist development. We follow a trail that considers concepts and discussions by Harvey and many other intellectuals with whom he established a fruitful dialogue throughout the years. We considered, for instance, the idea of postmodernity as fundamental in the discussion of the concept of flexible accumulation, that is structuring of Harvey’s thinking about the sort of political economy that came after the crisis of Fordism. The term post-Fordism, then in use, and associated discussions were too broad to specify and explain the speedy transformations on course then. Accumulation by dispossession, another of Harvey’s fundamental concepts developed later, introduces a crucial aspect that should be considered: the rentier nature of today’s increasingly urban development.
Keywords: David Harvey, Global Rentier Development, Flexible Accumulation
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