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Book Synopsis

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

    Table of Contents
    Preface and Acknowledgments ix

    Globalization and Development: Recurring Themes 1
    Amy Bellone Hite, J. Timmons Roberts, and Nitsan Chorev

    Part I Formative Approaches to Development and Social Change 19

    Introduction 21

    1 Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848) and Alienated Labour (1844) 29
    Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

    2 The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905) 39
    Max Weber

    3 The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto (1960) 52
    W. W. Rostow

    4 Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective (1962) 62
    Alexander Gerschenkron

    5 A Study of Slum Culture: Backgrounds for La Vida (1968) 79
    Oscar Lewis

    6 Political Participation: Modernization and Political Decay (1968) 88
    Samuel Huntington

    Part II Dependency and Beyond 95

    Introduction 97

    7 The Development of Underdevelopment (1969) 105
    Andre Gunder Frank

    8 Dependency and Development in Latin America (1972) 115
    Fernando Henrique Cardoso

    9 The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System: Concepts for Comparative Analysis (1979) 126
    Immanuel Wallerstein

    10 Taiwan’s Economic History: A Case of Etatisme and a Challenge to Dependency Theory (1979) 147
    Alice H. Amsden

    11 Rethinking Development Theory: Insights from East Asia and Latin America (1989) 169
    Gary Gereffi

    12 Interrogating Development: Feminism, Gender and Policy (1998) 191
    Ruth Pearson and Cecile Jackson

    13 Why Is Buying a “Madras” Cotton Shirt a Political Act? A Feminist Commodity Chain Analysis (2004) 204
    Priti Ramamurthy

    Part III What Is Globalization? 225

    Introduction 227

    14 The New International Division of Labour in the World Economy (1980) 231
    Folker Fröbel, Jürgen Heinrichs, and Otto Kreye

    15 In Defense of Global Capitalism (2003) 247
    Johan Norberg

    16 It’s a Flat World, After All (2005) 263
    Thomas L. Friedman

    17 The Financialization of the American Economy (2005) 272
    Greta R. Krippner

    18 The Transnational Capitalist Class and the Discourse of Globalization (2000) 304
    Leslie Sklair

    19 The Washington Consensus as Transnational Policy Paradigm: Its Origins, Trajectory and Likely Successor (2012) 319
    Sarah Babb

    20 The Crises of Capitalism (2010) 333
    David Harvey

    Part IV Development after Globalization 337

    Introduction 339

    21 Global Crisis, African Oppression (2001) 345
    Patrick Bond

    22 Agrofuels in the Food Regime (2010) 356
    Philip McMichael

    23 Global Cities and Survival Circuits (2002) 373
    Saskia Sassen

    24 What Makes a Miracle: Some Myths about the Rise of China and India (2008) 391
    Pranab Bardhan

    25 Foreign Aid (2006) 398
    Steven Radelet

    26 The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy (2011) 417
    Dani Rodrik

    Part V Global Themes Searching for New Paradigms 441

    Introduction 443

    27 A New World Order (2004) 449
    Anne-Marie Slaughter

    28 Transnational Advocacy Networks in International Politics (1998) 476
    Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink

    29 Multipolarity and the New World (Dis)Order: US Hegemonic Decline and the Fragmentation of the Global Climate Regime (2011) 486
    J. Timmons Roberts

    30 Changing Global Norms through Reactive Diffusion: The Case of Intellectual Property Protection of AIDS Drugs (2012) 503
    Nitsan Chorev

    31 Development as Freedom (1999) 525
    Amartya Sen

    32 From Polanyi to Pollyanna: The False Optimism of Global Labor Studies (2010) 549
    Michael Burawoy

    33 The Developmental State: Divergent Responses to Modern Economic Theory and the Twenty-First-Century Economy (2014) 563
    Peter Evans

    Index 583

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: 12/12/2014
      ISBN13: 9781118735107, 978-1118735107
      ISBN10: 1118735102

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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

        Table of Contents
        Preface and Acknowledgments ix

        Globalization and Development: Recurring Themes 1
        Amy Bellone Hite, J. Timmons Roberts, and Nitsan Chorev

        Part I Formative Approaches to Development and Social Change 19

        Introduction 21

        1 Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848) and Alienated Labour (1844) 29
        Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

        2 The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905) 39
        Max Weber

        3 The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto (1960) 52
        W. W. Rostow

        4 Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective (1962) 62
        Alexander Gerschenkron

        5 A Study of Slum Culture: Backgrounds for La Vida (1968) 79
        Oscar Lewis

        6 Political Participation: Modernization and Political Decay (1968) 88
        Samuel Huntington

        Part II Dependency and Beyond 95

        Introduction 97

        7 The Development of Underdevelopment (1969) 105
        Andre Gunder Frank

        8 Dependency and Development in Latin America (1972) 115
        Fernando Henrique Cardoso

        9 The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System: Concepts for Comparative Analysis (1979) 126
        Immanuel Wallerstein

        10 Taiwan’s Economic History: A Case of Etatisme and a Challenge to Dependency Theory (1979) 147
        Alice H. Amsden

        11 Rethinking Development Theory: Insights from East Asia and Latin America (1989) 169
        Gary Gereffi

        12 Interrogating Development: Feminism, Gender and Policy (1998) 191
        Ruth Pearson and Cecile Jackson

        13 Why Is Buying a “Madras” Cotton Shirt a Political Act? A Feminist Commodity Chain Analysis (2004) 204
        Priti Ramamurthy

        Part III What Is Globalization? 225

        Introduction 227

        14 The New International Division of Labour in the World Economy (1980) 231
        Folker Fröbel, Jürgen Heinrichs, and Otto Kreye

        15 In Defense of Global Capitalism (2003) 247
        Johan Norberg

        16 It’s a Flat World, After All (2005) 263
        Thomas L. Friedman

        17 The Financialization of the American Economy (2005) 272
        Greta R. Krippner

        18 The Transnational Capitalist Class and the Discourse of Globalization (2000) 304
        Leslie Sklair

        19 The Washington Consensus as Transnational Policy Paradigm: Its Origins, Trajectory and Likely Successor (2012) 319
        Sarah Babb

        20 The Crises of Capitalism (2010) 333
        David Harvey

        Part IV Development after Globalization 337

        Introduction 339

        21 Global Crisis, African Oppression (2001) 345
        Patrick Bond

        22 Agrofuels in the Food Regime (2010) 356
        Philip McMichael

        23 Global Cities and Survival Circuits (2002) 373
        Saskia Sassen

        24 What Makes a Miracle: Some Myths about the Rise of China and India (2008) 391
        Pranab Bardhan

        25 Foreign Aid (2006) 398
        Steven Radelet

        26 The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy (2011) 417
        Dani Rodrik

        Part V Global Themes Searching for New Paradigms 441

        Introduction 443

        27 A New World Order (2004) 449
        Anne-Marie Slaughter

        28 Transnational Advocacy Networks in International Politics (1998) 476
        Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink

        29 Multipolarity and the New World (Dis)Order: US Hegemonic Decline and the Fragmentation of the Global Climate Regime (2011) 486
        J. Timmons Roberts

        30 Changing Global Norms through Reactive Diffusion: The Case of Intellectual Property Protection of AIDS Drugs (2012) 503
        Nitsan Chorev

        31 Development as Freedom (1999) 525
        Amartya Sen

        32 From Polanyi to Pollyanna: The False Optimism of Global Labor Studies (2010) 549
        Michael Burawoy

        33 The Developmental State: Divergent Responses to Modern Economic Theory and the Twenty-First-Century Economy (2014) 563
        Peter Evans

        Index 583

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