# Quote — David Harvey, The Limits to Capital

> If, for example, a conspiratorially minded elite is so powerful, has at its fingertips such multiple and delicate instruments with which to fine-tune accumulation, then how can the periodic headlong slides into crisis be explained?

- Author: [David Harvey](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-harvey.md)
- Book: [The Limits to Capital](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-harvey/the-limits-to-capital.md)
- Page: 316
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-harvey/the-limits-to-capital/if-for-example

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> There is, in short, no 'spatial fix' that can contain the contradictions of capitalism in the long run.

p. 442 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-harvey/the-limits-to-capital/there-is-in-short.md)

> Because the earth is not a product of labour it cannot have a value.

p. 347 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/david-harvey/the-limits-to-capital/because-the-earth.md)