Globalization and Development Reader

Perspectives on Development and Global Change

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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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 writingsSecond edition includes 33 essential readings, including 21 new selectionsNew 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 politicsIncreased 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 editionIncludes a general introduction to the field, and short, insightful section introductions to each readingNew 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

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Utgivningsdatum:2014-12-12
Mått:168 x 241 x 33 mm
Vikt:931 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:640
Upplaga:2
Förlag:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN:9781118735107

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J. Timmons Roberts is the Ittleson Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology at Brown University, Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, and a Faculty Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown. He has published over seventy articles and his books include A Climate of Injustice: Global Inequality, North-South Politics, and Climate Policy (with Bradley Parks, 2007) and Trouble in Paradise: Globalization and Environmental Crises in Latin America (with Nikki Thanos, 2003).Amy Bellone Hite is Chairperson of The Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Xavier University of Louisiana. In addition to articles on urbanization and development, gender and class in Latin America, and demographic changes resulting from Hurricane Katrina, Bellone Hite has co-edited two prior volumes with J. Timmons Roberts.Nitsan Chorev is the Harmon Family Professor of Sociology and International Affairs at Brown University. She was recently a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and a member at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ. Her publications include, The World Health Organization Between North and South (Cornell University Press, 2012) and Remaking U.S. Trade Policy: From Protectionism to Globalization (Cornell University Press, 2007).

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Preface and Acknowledgments ix Globalization and Development: Recurring Themes 1Amy Bellone Hite, J. Timmons Roberts, and Nitsan ChorevPart I Formative Approaches to Development and Social Change 19Introduction 211 Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848) and Alienated Labour (1844) 29Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels2 The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905) 39Max Weber3 The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto (1960) 52W. W. Rostow4 Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective (1962) 62Alexander Gerschenkron5 A Study of Slum Culture: Backgrounds for La Vida (1968) 79Oscar Lewis6 Political Participation: Modernization and Political Decay (1968) 88Samuel HuntingtonPart II Dependency and Beyond 95Introduction 977 The Development of Underdevelopment (1969) 105Andre Gunder Frank8 Dependency and Development in Latin America (1972) 115Fernando Henrique Cardoso9 The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System: Concepts for Comparative Analysis (1979) 126Immanuel Wallerstein10 Taiwan’s Economic History: A Case of Etatisme and a Challenge to Dependency Theory (1979) 147Alice H. Amsden11 Rethinking Development Theory: Insights from East Asia and Latin America (1989) 169Gary Gereffi12 Interrogating Development: Feminism, Gender and Policy (1998) 191Ruth Pearson and Cecile Jackson13 Why Is Buying a “Madras” Cotton Shirt a Political Act? A Feminist Commodity Chain Analysis (2004) 204Priti RamamurthyPart III What Is Globalization? 225Introduction 22714 The New International Division of Labour in the World Economy (1980) 231Folker Fröbel, Jürgen Heinrichs, and Otto Kreye15 In Defense of Global Capitalism (2003) 247Johan Norberg16 It’s a Flat World, After All (2005) 263Thomas L. Friedman17 The Financialization of the American Economy (2005) 272Greta R. Krippner18 The Transnational Capitalist Class and the Discourse of Globalization (2000) 304Leslie Sklair19 The Washington Consensus as Transnational Policy Paradigm: Its Origins, Trajectory and Likely Successor (2012) 319Sarah Babb20 The Crises of Capitalism (2010) 333David HarveyPart IV Development after Globalization 337Introduction 33921 Global Crisis, African Oppression (2001) 345Patrick Bond22 Agrofuels in the Food Regime (2010) 356Philip McMichael23 Global Cities and Survival Circuits (2002) 373Saskia Sassen24 What Makes a Miracle: Some Myths about the Rise of China and India (2008) 391Pranab Bardhan25 Foreign Aid (2006) 398Steven Radelet26 The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy (2011) 417Dani RodrikPart V Global Themes Searching for New Paradigms 441Introduction 44327 A New World Order (2004) 449Anne-Marie Slaughter28 Transnational Advocacy Networks in International Politics (1998) 476Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink29 Multipolarity and the New World (Dis)Order: US Hegemonic Decline and the Fragmentation of the Global Climate Regime (2011) 486J. Timmons Roberts30 Changing Global Norms through Reactive Diffusion: The Case of Intellectual Property Protection of AIDS Drugs (2012) 503Nitsan Chorev31 Development as Freedom (1999) 525Amartya Sen32 From Polanyi to Pollyanna: The False Optimism of Global Labor Studies (2010) 549Michael Burawoy33 The Developmental State: Divergent Responses to Modern Economic Theory and the Twenty-First-Century Economy (2014) 563Peter EvansIndex 583