David W. Harvey is a British Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Geography at The Graduate Center of City University of New York (CUNY) and a famous author of several best-selling books. He received his doctorate in Geography from the University of Cambridge in 1961 and since then has been teaching and authoring several books and numerous influential essays and articles on geographical knowledge, urbanization in capitalist economy, urban planning, Marxism and social theory, environment and social change, ecological movements, etc. which have collectively contributed to the advancement of Modern Geography as a subject. His long illustrious academic career includes teaching positions at some of the leading universities of the world such as the University of Bristol and the University of Oxford, in England; and the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, USA. One of his most important teaching subjects for over 40 years now is Karl Marx's ‘Capital’ which makes him one of most prominent Marxist scholars in the past half century. He is also one of the world’s most frequently cited social scientists. In 2007, he was ranked as the 18thmost-cited author in the humanities and social sciences sections. Earlier, he was also ranked first in a study of the most-cited academic geographers in four English-speaking countries between 1984 and 1988. His latest publication is titled ‘The Ways of the World’ (2016).