David Harvie
Biographic Data
| ID | 374231 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Harvie |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Harvie |
| SIGNATURE | HARVIE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1431-9314 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 146 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The mobilisation of refugee labour for carbon credits as maladaptive practice
The Refugee Environmental Protection (REP) Fund is a programme designed to turn refugees and their labour into a source of carbon credits for global carbon markets. Established by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the Fund invests in clean cookstove and reforestation projects in and around refugee camps, with the resulting (imputed) reduction in CO 2 (and CO 2 equivalent) emissions and sequestration of CO 2 converted into saleable carbon cre…
Breaking the impasse: Reflections on university worker organising in the UK
Since 2022, Britain has been in the midst of its largest strike wave in decades, with protracted industrial action across much of the public sector, as well as in industries such as transport.In the twelve months to June 2023, four million working days were lost to labour disputes, a dramatic shift from 2018, when the corresponding figure was just 272 000, the sixth-lowest annual total since records began in 1891.Perhaps surprisingly, however, tw…
Commoning with George Caffentzis and Silvia Federici
Big) Society and (Market) Discipline: Social Investment and the Financialisation of Social Reproduction
The United Kingdom is at the forefront of a global movement to establish a social-investment market. At the heart of social investment we find finance – and financialisation. Specifically, we find: a financial market (the social-investment market); a series of financial institutions (Big Society Capital, for example); a financial instrument (the social-impact bond); and a financial practice (social investing). Focusing on the UK, given its pionee…
Using derivative logic to speculate on the future of the social investment market
This article pries open the black box of the social impact bond (SIB), the novel financial instrument at the heart of social investment. We discover that concrete information is currently limited and our method is thus more speculative. We address the obfuscation of the nomenclature of the instrument and explore the mechanics of SIBs to suggest that they are not simple bonds but rather also bear properties akin to those associated with derivative…
The broken promises of the social investment market
The United Kingdom is pioneering a new model for the delivery of public services, based around the device of a social investment market. At the heart of this social investment market is an innovative new financial instrument, the social impact bond (SIB). In this paper we argue that the SIB promises (partial) solutions to four aspects of the present multifaceted crisis: the crisis of social reproduction; the crisis of capital accumulation; the fi…
On the uses of fairy dust: Contagion, sorcery and the crafting of other worlds
We look to mythic resources to help us narrativise and conceptualise instances of 'affective contagion' within social movements. We first review 'Crowd Theory', from Gustave Le Bon to Freud, and then the mimetics of Richard Dawkins and his followers. We find both theories lacking when it comes to accounting for collective agency. Next we turn to the work of Philippe Pignarre and Isabelle Stengers, drawing on their conception of capitalist sorcery…
Harnessing the Social: State, Crisis and (Big) Society
The article analyses the UK government's plans to create a social investment market. The Big Society as political economy is understood as a response to three aspects of a multi-faceted, global crisis: a crisis of capital accumulation; a crisis of social reproduction; and, a fiscal crisis of the state. While the neoliberal state is retreating from the sphere of social reproduction, further off-loading the costs of social reproduction onto the unw…
Publisher, be damned! From price gouging to the open road
All four authors are members of the Leicester school of critical management and have previously written together on academic publishing. David Harvie lectures in finance and is interested in ethical issues related to this and other matters. He is a member of The Free Association writing collective. Geoff Lightfoot lectures in entrepreneurship and has particular interests in the ideology of markets and critical accounting. Simon Lilley works on in…
The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Twenty-First Century
We reread E. P. Thompson's remarkable 1971 essay "The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century" in the light of the English riots of August 2011. Arguing against what Thompson would have called the "spasmodic view" of these riots-that they were "nonpolitical" or "prepolitical"-we contend instead that they contained information that reveals a particular "moral economy" of their participants. In particular, rioters and looters w…
What are we to do with feral publishers
This article examines the profits and practices of commercial journal publishers and argues for an appropriate response from the academic community
Speaking out: How organizations value and how value organizes
‘There is no alternative!’, declared British prime minister Margaret Thatcher three decades ago. The bald statement, repeated ad nauseam, became neoliberal mantra. It seeks to universalize and naturalize an ethical framework that privileges market value to the exclusion of other values. This ethical framework—or value system—determines the way in which organizations value human actions and, hence, the way that (market) value organizes human relat…
Antagonism, Neo‐liberalism and Movements: Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast
The “movement of movements” has reached an impasse, from which innovation and expansion appear out of reach. Given these circumstances a re‐examination of concepts such as antagonism and class hatred might be timely. Antagonism has never disappeared. It is present in climate‐change politics as much as in those of the Black Bloc—both examples we discuss here. Indeed antagonism permeates capitalism and drives capitalist development. But a politics …
Cognitive Capitalism' and the Rat-Race: How Capital Measures Immaterial Labour in British Universities
One hundred years ago, Frederick Taylor and the pioneers of scientific management went into battle on US factory-floors. Armed with stopwatches and clipboards, they were fighting a war over measure. A century on and capitalist production has spread far beyond the factory walls and the confines of 'national economies'. Although capitalism increasingly seems to rely on 'cognitive' and 'immaterial' forms of labour and social cooperation, the war ove…
Economic Well-being and British Regions: The Problem with GDP Per Capita
Economists and policy-makers often present per capita gross domestic product (GDP) as by far the most significant indicator of economic well-being. Such measures are frequently adopted in making international comparisons, constructing time-series for particular countries and in studies of regional inequality. In this paper we challenge this view using a regional analysis of 2001 data focusing upon differences between London and the south-eastern …
Value production and struggle in the classroom: Teachers within, against and beyond capital
To the extent that their labour produces value and surplus value, teachers are productive labourers. This paper discusses teachers' labour in relation to the production of new labour power, explores the extent to which it is alienated, and explains how it produces surplus value. But the classroom is also a site of struggle. The paper explores some of the ways in which teachers and students may both refuse capitalist work and create space in order…
Alienation, Class and Enclosure in UK Universities
The working conditions of many academics in UK universities have deteriorated sharply over the past two decades or so, even if ‘for many the academic labour process remains in its core activities [of teaching, research, scholarship, counselling and administration] remarkably constant’ in terms of the type of work performed (Miller, 1991: 111). There have been dramatic and drastic changes in higher education: university budgets, together with fund…
Harnessing the Social: State, Crisis and (Big) Society
The article analyses the UK government's plans to create a social investment market. The Big Society as political economy is understood as a response to three aspects of a multi-faceted, global crisis: a crisis of capital accumulation; a crisis of social reproduction; and, a fiscal crisis of the state. While the neoliberal state is retreating from the sphere of social reproduction, further off-loading the costs of social reproduction onto the unw…
Cognitive Capitalism' and the Rat-Race: How Capital Measures Immaterial Labour in British Universities
One hundred years ago, Frederick Taylor and the pioneers of scientific management went into battle on US factory-floors. Armed with stopwatches and clipboards, they were fighting a war over measure. A century on and capitalist production has spread far beyond the factory walls and the confines of 'national economies'. Although capitalism increasingly seems to rely on 'cognitive' and 'immaterial' forms of labour and social cooperation, the war ove…
Value production and struggle in the classroom: Teachers within, against and beyond capital
To the extent that their labour produces value and surplus value, teachers are productive labourers. This paper discusses teachers' labour in relation to the production of new labour power, explores the extent to which it is alienated, and explains how it produces surplus value. But the classroom is also a site of struggle. The paper explores some of the ways in which teachers and students may both refuse capitalist work and create space in order…
Alienation, Class and Enclosure in UK Universities
The working conditions of many academics in UK universities have deteriorated sharply over the past two decades or so, even if ‘for many the academic labour process remains in its core activities [of teaching, research, scholarship, counselling and administration] remarkably constant’ in terms of the type of work performed (Miller, 1991: 111). There have been dramatic and drastic changes in higher education: university budgets, together with fund…
The broken promises of the social investment market
The United Kingdom is pioneering a new model for the delivery of public services, based around the device of a social investment market. At the heart of this social investment market is an innovative new financial instrument, the social impact bond (SIB). In this paper we argue that the SIB promises (partial) solutions to four aspects of the present multifaceted crisis: the crisis of social reproduction; the crisis of capital accumulation; the fi…
Using derivative logic to speculate on the future of the social investment market
This article pries open the black box of the social impact bond (SIB), the novel financial instrument at the heart of social investment. We discover that concrete information is currently limited and our method is thus more speculative. We address the obfuscation of the nomenclature of the instrument and explore the mechanics of SIBs to suggest that they are not simple bonds but rather also bear properties akin to those associated with derivative…
Big) Society and (Market) Discipline: Social Investment and the Financialisation of Social Reproduction
The United Kingdom is at the forefront of a global movement to establish a social-investment market. At the heart of social investment we find finance – and financialisation. Specifically, we find: a financial market (the social-investment market); a series of financial institutions (Big Society Capital, for example); a financial instrument (the social-impact bond); and a financial practice (social investing). Focusing on the UK, given its pionee…
The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Twenty-First Century
We reread E. P. Thompson's remarkable 1971 essay "The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century" in the light of the English riots of August 2011. Arguing against what Thompson would have called the "spasmodic view" of these riots-that they were "nonpolitical" or "prepolitical"-we contend instead that they contained information that reveals a particular "moral economy" of their participants. In particular, rioters and looters w…
Antagonism, Neo‐liberalism and Movements: Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast
The “movement of movements” has reached an impasse, from which innovation and expansion appear out of reach. Given these circumstances a re‐examination of concepts such as antagonism and class hatred might be timely. Antagonism has never disappeared. It is present in climate‐change politics as much as in those of the Black Bloc—both examples we discuss here. Indeed antagonism permeates capitalism and drives capitalist development. But a politics …
On the uses of fairy dust: Contagion, sorcery and the crafting of other worlds
We look to mythic resources to help us narrativise and conceptualise instances of 'affective contagion' within social movements. We first review 'Crowd Theory', from Gustave Le Bon to Freud, and then the mimetics of Richard Dawkins and his followers. We find both theories lacking when it comes to accounting for collective agency. Next we turn to the work of Philippe Pignarre and Isabelle Stengers, drawing on their conception of capitalist sorcery…
Economic Well-being and British Regions: The Problem with GDP Per Capita
Economists and policy-makers often present per capita gross domestic product (GDP) as by far the most significant indicator of economic well-being. Such measures are frequently adopted in making international comparisons, constructing time-series for particular countries and in studies of regional inequality. In this paper we challenge this view using a regional analysis of 2001 data focusing upon differences between London and the south-eastern …
Alienation, Class and Enclosure in UK Universities
The working conditions of many academics in UK universities have deteriorated sharply over the past two decades or so, even if ‘for many the academic labour process remains in its core activities [of teaching, research, scholarship, counselling and administration] remarkably constant’ in terms of the type of work performed (Miller, 1991: 111). There have been dramatic and drastic changes in higher education: university budgets, together with fund…
Value production and struggle in the classroom: Teachers within, against and beyond capital
To the extent that their labour produces value and surplus value, teachers are productive labourers. This paper discusses teachers' labour in relation to the production of new labour power, explores the extent to which it is alienated, and explains how it produces surplus value. But the classroom is also a site of struggle. The paper explores some of the ways in which teachers and students may both refuse capitalist work and create space in order…
Cognitive Capitalism' and the Rat-Race: How Capital Measures Immaterial Labour in British Universities
One hundred years ago, Frederick Taylor and the pioneers of scientific management went into battle on US factory-floors. Armed with stopwatches and clipboards, they were fighting a war over measure. A century on and capitalist production has spread far beyond the factory walls and the confines of 'national economies'. Although capitalism increasingly seems to rely on 'cognitive' and 'immaterial' forms of labour and social cooperation, the war ove…
Economic Well-being and British Regions: The Problem with GDP Per Capita
Economists and policy-makers often present per capita gross domestic product (GDP) as by far the most significant indicator of economic well-being. Such measures are frequently adopted in making international comparisons, constructing time-series for particular countries and in studies of regional inequality. In this paper we challenge this view using a regional analysis of 2001 data focusing upon differences between London and the south-eastern …
Speaking out: How organizations value and how value organizes
‘There is no alternative!’, declared British prime minister Margaret Thatcher three decades ago. The bald statement, repeated ad nauseam, became neoliberal mantra. It seeks to universalize and naturalize an ethical framework that privileges market value to the exclusion of other values. This ethical framework—or value system—determines the way in which organizations value human actions and, hence, the way that (market) value organizes human relat…
Antagonism, Neo‐liberalism and Movements: Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast
The “movement of movements” has reached an impasse, from which innovation and expansion appear out of reach. Given these circumstances a re‐examination of concepts such as antagonism and class hatred might be timely. Antagonism has never disappeared. It is present in climate‐change politics as much as in those of the Black Bloc—both examples we discuss here. Indeed antagonism permeates capitalism and drives capitalist development. But a politics …
What are we to do with feral publishers
This article examines the profits and practices of commercial journal publishers and argues for an appropriate response from the academic community
Publisher, be damned! From price gouging to the open road
All four authors are members of the Leicester school of critical management and have previously written together on academic publishing. David Harvie lectures in finance and is interested in ethical issues related to this and other matters. He is a member of The Free Association writing collective. Geoff Lightfoot lectures in entrepreneurship and has particular interests in the ideology of markets and critical accounting. Simon Lilley works on in…
The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Twenty-First Century
We reread E. P. Thompson's remarkable 1971 essay "The Moral Economy of the English Crowd in the Eighteenth Century" in the light of the English riots of August 2011. Arguing against what Thompson would have called the "spasmodic view" of these riots-that they were "nonpolitical" or "prepolitical"-we contend instead that they contained information that reveals a particular "moral economy" of their participants. In particular, rioters and looters w…
Harnessing the Social: State, Crisis and (Big) Society
The article analyses the UK government's plans to create a social investment market. The Big Society as political economy is understood as a response to three aspects of a multi-faceted, global crisis: a crisis of capital accumulation; a crisis of social reproduction; and, a fiscal crisis of the state. While the neoliberal state is retreating from the sphere of social reproduction, further off-loading the costs of social reproduction onto the unw…
On the uses of fairy dust: Contagion, sorcery and the crafting of other worlds
We look to mythic resources to help us narrativise and conceptualise instances of 'affective contagion' within social movements. We first review 'Crowd Theory', from Gustave Le Bon to Freud, and then the mimetics of Richard Dawkins and his followers. We find both theories lacking when it comes to accounting for collective agency. Next we turn to the work of Philippe Pignarre and Isabelle Stengers, drawing on their conception of capitalist sorcery…
Commoning with George Caffentzis and Silvia Federici
Big) Society and (Market) Discipline: Social Investment and the Financialisation of Social Reproduction
The United Kingdom is at the forefront of a global movement to establish a social-investment market. At the heart of social investment we find finance – and financialisation. Specifically, we find: a financial market (the social-investment market); a series of financial institutions (Big Society Capital, for example); a financial instrument (the social-impact bond); and a financial practice (social investing). Focusing on the UK, given its pionee…
Using derivative logic to speculate on the future of the social investment market
This article pries open the black box of the social impact bond (SIB), the novel financial instrument at the heart of social investment. We discover that concrete information is currently limited and our method is thus more speculative. We address the obfuscation of the nomenclature of the instrument and explore the mechanics of SIBs to suggest that they are not simple bonds but rather also bear properties akin to those associated with derivative…
The broken promises of the social investment market
The United Kingdom is pioneering a new model for the delivery of public services, based around the device of a social investment market. At the heart of this social investment market is an innovative new financial instrument, the social impact bond (SIB). In this paper we argue that the SIB promises (partial) solutions to four aspects of the present multifaceted crisis: the crisis of social reproduction; the crisis of capital accumulation; the fi…
Breaking the impasse: Reflections on university worker organising in the UK
Since 2022, Britain has been in the midst of its largest strike wave in decades, with protracted industrial action across much of the public sector, as well as in industries such as transport.In the twelve months to June 2023, four million working days were lost to labour disputes, a dramatic shift from 2018, when the corresponding figure was just 272 000, the sixth-lowest annual total since records began in 1891.Perhaps surprisingly, however, tw…
The mobilisation of refugee labour for carbon credits as maladaptive practice
The Refugee Environmental Protection (REP) Fund is a programme designed to turn refugees and their labour into a source of carbon credits for global carbon markets. Established by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the Fund invests in clean cookstove and reforestation projects in and around refugee camps, with the resulting (imputed) reduction in CO 2 (and CO 2 equivalent) emissions and sequestration of CO 2 converted into saleable carbon cre…
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