The Globalization and Development Reader :Perspectives on Development and Global Change

Publication subTitle :Perspectives on Development and Global Change

Author: J. Timmons Roberts  

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc‎

Publication year: 2014

E-ISBN: 9781118735442

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781118735107

Subject: F112.1 The economies of the developing countries.

Keyword: Capitalism Development, Max Weber Underdevelopment Dependency Neo-Liberalism Global Recession Newly Industrializing Countries Gender and Development Global Economy Globalization Global Economics Sociology of Development Political Economy Supply Chains World Economy North-South Divide Security Anti-Globalization

Language: ENG

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This revised and updated second edition of The Globalization and Development Reader builds on the considerable success of a first edition that has been used around the world. It combines selected readings and editorial material to provide a coherent text with global coverage, reflecting new theoretical and empirical developments.

  • Main text and core reference for students and professionals studying the processes of social change and development in “third world” countries. Carefully excerpted materials facilitate the understanding of classic and contemporary writings
  • Second edition includes 33 essential readings, including 21 new selections
  • New pieces cover the impact of the recession in the global North, global inequality and uneven development, gender, international migration, the role of cities, agriculture and on the governance of pharmaceuticals and climate change politics
  • Increased coverage of China and India help to provide genuinely global coverage, and for a student readership the materials have been subject to a higher degree of editing in the new edition
  • Includes a general introduction to the field, and short, insightful section introductions to each reading
  • New readings include selections by Alexander Gershenkron, Alice Amsden, Amartya Sen, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Cecile Jackson, Dani Rodrik, David Harvey, Greta Krippner, Kathryn Sikkink, Leslie Sklair, Margaret E. Keck, Michael Burawoy, Nitsan Chorev, Oscar Lewis, Patrick Bond, Peter Evans, Philip McMichael, Pranab Bardhan, Ruth Pearson, Sarah Babb, Saskia Sassen, and Steve Radelet

Chapter

Part I Formative Approaches to Development and Social Change

Introduction

Notes

Chapter 1 Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848) and Alienated Labour (1844)

Manifesto of the Communist Party

Alienated Labour

Chapter 2 The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905)

Chapter 3 The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto (1960)

The Five Stages-of-Growth – A Summary

Notes

Chapter 4 Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective (1962)

The Elements of Backwardness

The Banks

The State

The Gradations of Backwardness

Ideologies of Delayed Industrializations

Conclusions

Note

Chapter 5 A Study of Slum Culture: Backgrounds for La Vida (1968)

The Culture of Poverty

Notes

Chapter 6 Political Participation: Modernization and Political Decay (1968)

Modernization and Political Consciousness

Modernization and Violence

Notes

Part II Dependency and Beyond

Introduction

Notes

Chapter 7 The Development of Underdevelopment (1969)

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

IX

Notes

Chapter 8 Dependency and Development in Latin America (1972)

Lenin’s Characterization of Imperialism

Imperialism and Dependent Economies

New Patterns of Capital Accumulation

New Forms of Economic Dependency

Some Political Consequences

Notes

Chapter 9 The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System: Concepts for Comparative Analysis (1979)

notes

Chapter 10 Taiwan’s Economic History: A Case of Etatisme and a Challenge to Dependency Theory (1979)

Introduction

The Colonial Period: 1895–1945

Land to the Tiller

Agriculture 1953–1968

Industrialization

The Taiwan Case and Dependency Theory

A Special Case

A Crisis of Labor

Notes

References

Chapter 11 Rethinking Development Theory: Insights from East Asia and Latin America (1989)

Introduction

Theoretical Perspectives on East Asian and Latin American Development: Perceptions and Misconceptions

The NICs in Historical and World-Systems Context

The Dynamic Interplay of Inward- and Outward-Oriented Industrialization

Dependent Development in Latin America and East Asia

The Emergent Global Manufacturing System: Toward a Theoretical Synthesis

Editors’ Note

References

Chapter 12 Interrogating Development: Feminism, Gender and Policy (1998)

Feminist Analysis versus Women and Development

Commonalities and Difference

Gender Interests and Emancipatory Projects

Domestic Groups: Cooperation, Conflict and Struggle

Feminisms and Green Fundamentalism

Gendered Economies: Relations of Production and Reproduction

Feminism as Deconstruction

Note

References

Chapter 13 Why Is Buying a “Madras” Cotton Shirt a Political Act? A Feminist Commodity Chain Analysis (2004)

A Critique of Realist Commodity Chains and the Feminist Alternative

Distant Lands, Moral Ends

Producing Cotton: Changing Wage and Labor Relations in South India

Producing Femininities and Masculinities

Conclusion

Notes

Part III What Is Globalization?

Introduction

Notes

Chapter 14 The New International Division of Labour in the World Economy (1980)

The Phenomenon

Main Tendencies in the Contemporary World Economy

Notes

Chapter 15 In Defense of Global Capitalism (2003)

Introduction

Poverty Reduction

Hunger

Democratization

Oppression of Women

Global Inequality

Reservations

Notes

Chapter 16 It’s a Flat World, After All (2005)

Chapter 17 The Financialization of the American Economy (2005)

Introduction

Two Views of Economic Change

Evidence for Financialization

Financialization and the Reorganization of Corporate Activity

Financialization and the Globalization of Production

Conclusion

Notes

References

Chapter 18 The Transnational Capitalist Class and the Discourse of Globalization (2000)

Introduction

The Transnational Capitalist Class (TCC)

The Disclosure of Capitalist Globalization: Competitiveness

The Corporate Capture of Sustainable Development

Notes

Chapter 19 The Washington Consensus as Transnational Policy Paradigm: Its Origins, Trajectory and Likely Successor (2012)

The Washington Consensus as a Transnational Policy Paradigm

The Rise of the Washington Consensus

The Influence of the Washington Consensus

Notes

References

Chapter 20 The Crises of Capitalism (2010)

Part IV Development after Globalization

Introduction

Note

Chapter 21 Global Crisis, African Oppression (2001)

The African Crisis Continues

Notes

Chapter 22 Agrofuels in the Food Regime (2010)

Introduction

Food Regimes and Development

The Twenty-First Century Agrarian Question

Corporate Food Regime Developments

Food Regime Ecology

Conclusion

Notes

References

Chapter 23 Global Cities and Survival Circuits (2002)

Global Cities and Survival Circuits

Toward an Alternative Narrative about Globalization

Women in the Global City

New Employment Regimes in Cities

The Other Workers in the Advanced Corporate Economy

Producing a Global Supply of the New Caretakers: The Feminization of Survival

Government Debt: Shifting Resources from Women to Foreign Banks

Alternative Survival Circuits

Conclusion

Notes

Chapter 24 What Makes a Miracle:: Some Myths about the Rise of China and India (2008)

Chapter 25 Foreign Aid (2006)

Introduction

Donors and recipients

Aid, Growth and Development

Donor Relationships with Recipient Countries

Summary and conclusions

Notes

References

Chapter 26 The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy (2011)

The Political Trilemma of the World Economy

Designing Capitalism 3.0

Notes

Part V Global Themes Searching for New Paradigms

Introduction

Chapter 27 A New World Order (2004)

Regulators: The New Diplomats

Notes

References

Chapter 28 Transnational Advocacy Networks in International Politics (1998)

What Is a Transnational Advocacy Network?

Why and How Have Transnational Advocacy Networks Emerged?

The Boomerang Pattern

The Growth of International Contact

How Do Transnational Advocacy Networks Work?

Under What Conditions Do Advocacy Networks Have Influence?

Issue Characteristics

Actor Characteristics

Toward a Global Civil Society?

Notes

Chapter 29 Multipolarity and the New World [Dis]Order: US Hegemonic Decline and the Fragmentation of the Global Climate Regime (2011)

Introduction

Copenhagen and Climate Justice

Multipolarity and the New World (Dis)Order

US Hegemonic Decline: Applying the Lens of Arrighi and Silver

Discussion and Conclusion

Notes

References

Chapter 30 Changing Global Norms through Reactive Diffusion: The Case of Intellectual Property Protection of AIDS Drugs (2012)

Making and Remaking of Global Norms: Current Views

Reactive Diffusion and Accumulated Experiences

From TRIPS to Doha and Beyond

Discussion

Notes

References

Chapter 31 Development as Freedom (1999)

Introduction: Development as Freedom

The Perspective of Freedom

The Ends and the Means of Development

Poverty as Capability Deprivation

Markets, State and Social Opportunity

Notes

Chapter 32 From Polanyi to Pollyanna: The False Optimism of Global Labor Studies (2010)

False Optimism

Grounding Globalization

Reconstructing Polanyi

Notes

Chapter 33 The Developmental State: Divergent Responses to Modern Economic Theory and the Twenty-First-Century Economy (2014)

The Recent Evolution of Development Theory

The Twentieth-Century Developmental State

A Historical Shift in the Character of Development

The Programmatic Implications of New Theory and New Circumstances

Does the Twenty-First Century Spell the Transformation or the Demise of the Developmental State?

Notes

References

Index

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