>Brieftly, he outlines the combination of spatial and temporal
>arrangements and then mixes and matches these to the dynamics of
>capitalism and states, covering finance and production, national
>policies and international agencies (IMF, WTO, GATT, TRIPPS, WB) along
>with regional consortiums like EU and Asian varieties (forgot the
>names).
>The result answers the question what empire---it is political,
>economic, geographic and conceptual.
Ok, I will read Harvey, but my question was why the contemporary global process of capital accumulation takes the form of an empire?
Ulhas