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Book SynopsisNigel Harris's Selected Essays: From National Liberation to Globalisation presents an encompassing overview of the work of one of the most prolific and insightful Marxist economists of the second half of the twentieth century. The collected essays deal with topics ranging from imperialism and the state to the political economy of development and migration
Table of ContentsIntroduction: An Interview with Nigel Harris
Imperialism and the World Order
1.1 Imperialism Today
1.2 How Should We Characterise the World Order? Reflections on Callinicos’s Imperialism and Global Political Economy
1.3 Can the West Survive?
1.4 On Economic Globalisation, Neo-Liberalism and the Nature of the Period
The State and Economic Development
2.1 The ‘Scissors Crisis in India and China’
2.2 Agriculture, Peasants and Accumulation
2.3 The Revolutionary Role of the Peasantry
2.4 China, Decentralisation and Development
2.5 New Bourgeoisies?
2.6 Nationalism and Development
2.7 The War-Making State and Privatisation
2.8 The Rise and Fall of the Concept of ‘National Economic Development’
Issues in Political Economy
3.1 Food, Development and Crisis
3.2 Deindustrialisation
3.3 The Road from 1910
3.4 Trade in Early India: Themes in Indian History
Migration
4.1 The New Untouchables: The International Migration of Labour
4.2 The Economics and Politics of the Free Movement of People
4.3 Immigration and State Power
4.4 The Freedom to Move
Journalism and Shorter Pieces
5.1 Japan: From the Other Side of the Hill
5.2 Nicaragua: 1979
5.3 Vietnam: Old Men Remember
5.4 Tehran Diary
5.5 Churchill: A Ruling-Class Militant
5.6 Two Notes on a Visit to the United States
5.7 Rip van Winkle in China
5.8 Apartheid is Dead! Long Live Apartheid!
5.9 Korea’s New Revolution
5.10 Structural Adjustment in Romania
5.11 Forms of Compulsion
5.12 Economic Fusion, Political Fission
5.13 Mexico’s Tiananmen Square
5.14 Peru: Emerging from the Crisis
5.15 Vietnam: Back at the Beginning
5.16 Lebanon: There is Life after Death
5.17 Moscow’s Migrants
5.18 Indonesia: The Year of Anniversaries
5.19 The First Commonwealth Immigration Act 1962: Fifty Years On
Bibliography of Nigel Harris’s Writings
References
Index
