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David Harvey

1935 - Today

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David W. Harvey (born 31 October 1935) is a British Marxist economic geographer, podcaster, and Distinguished Professor of anthropology and geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY). He received his PhD in geography from the University of Cambridge in 1961. Harvey has authored many books and essays that have been prominent in the development of modern geography as a discipline. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Harvey has received more than 979,360 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). David Harvey is the 18th most popular geographer (up from 20th in 2019), the 708th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 726th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular British Geographer.

David Harvey is a geographer and a Marxist scholar. He is most famous for his book "The Limits to Capital" which is a critique of the capitalist system.

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  • 36

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  • 7.39

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  • 2.94

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Among GEOGRAPHERS

Among geographers, David Harvey ranks 18 out of 67Before him are Ferdinand von Richthofen, Wladimir Köppen, Paul Vidal de La Blache, Ibn Khordadbeh, Pomponius Mela, and Ya'qubi. After him are Ibn Jubayr, Élisée Reclus, Abraham Cresques, James Lovelock, Georg Joachim Rheticus, and Al-Bakri.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, David Harvey ranks 38Before him are Udo Lattek, Adnan Khashoggi, Harvey J. Alter, Miroslav Blažević, Mirella Freni, and Giya Kancheli. After him are Jim Peebles, Jerry Lee Lewis, William Friedkin, Satoshi Ōmura, Sylvia Earle, and Danilo Kiš.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, David Harvey ranks 708 out of 7,765Before him are Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877), Sarah, Duchess of York (1959), James May (1963), Kenneth Branagh (1960), Charles Wheatstone (1802), and H. Rider Haggard (1856). After him are Banksy (1970), Rosemary Harris (1927), Edward B. Titchener (1867), Andrew Huxley (1917), Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809), and John Kendrew (1917).

Among GEOGRAPHERS In United Kingdom

Among geographers born in United Kingdom, David Harvey ranks 2Before him are George Everest (1790). After him are James Lovelock (1919), Doreen Massey (1944), John Walter Gregory (1864), John Speed (1551), and Thomas Griffith Taylor (1880).

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