Dr. John Weeks is professor of economics at the American University in Washington, D.C., and the author of Capital and Exploitation (1982) and The Economies of Central America (1984).

• Westview Replica Editions -- Introduction -- The Limits to Accumulation in Backward Countries: A Critique -- The Pattern of U.S. Foreign Direct Investment -- The Limits to Capitalist Accumulation in Backward Countries: A Theory -- Accumulation in Peru, 1950–1980 -- Growth and Composition of Peruvian Manufacturing -- Concentration and Centralization in Manufacturing -- The Material Condition of the Working Class -- Pattern of Ownership and the Efficiency of Capitals -- Collapse of the National Bourgeois Project -- Summary and Conclusions