Nigel Harris is a British economist and Professor Emeritus of the Economics of the City at University College London. His Mandate of Heaven: Marx and Mao in Modern China was republished by Haymarket Books in 2015. Ahmed Shawki is author of Black Liberation and Socialism. He is also an editor at Haymarket Books in Chicago and on the editorial board of the International Socialist Review.

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• Introduction: An Interview with Nigel HarrisImperialism and the World Order1.1 Imperialism Today1.2 How Should We Characterise the World Order? Reflections on Callinicos’s Imperialism and Global Political Economy1.3 Can the West Survive?1.4 On Economic Globalisation, Neo-Liberalism and the Nature of the PeriodThe State and Economic Development2.1 The ‘Scissors Crisis in India and China’2.2 Agriculture, Peasants and Accumulation2.3 The Revolutionary Role of the Peasantry2.4 China, Decentralisation and Development2.5 New Bourgeoisies?2.6 Nationalism and Development2.7 The War-Making State and Privatisation2.8 The Rise and Fall of the Concept of ‘National Economic Development’Issues in Political Economy3.1 Food, Development and Crisis3.2 Deindustrialisation3.3 The Road from 19103.4 Trade in Early India: Themes in Indian HistoryMigration4.1 The New Untouchables: The International Migration of Labour4.2 The Economics and Politics of the Free Movement of People4.3 Immigration and State Power4.4 The Freedom to MoveJournalism and Shorter Pieces5.1 Japan: From the Other Side of the Hill5.2 Nicaragua: 19795.3 Vietnam: Old Men Remember5.4 Tehran Diary5.5 Churchill: A Ruling-Class Militant5.6 Two Notes on a Visit to the United States5.7 Rip van Winkle in China5.8 Apartheid is Dead! Long Live Apartheid!5.9 Korea’s New Revolution5.10 Structural Adjustment in Romania5.11 Forms of Compulsion5.12 Economic Fusion, Political Fission5.13 Mexico’s Tiananmen Square5.14 Peru: Emerging from the Crisis5.15 Vietnam: Back at the Beginning5.16 Lebanon: There is Life after Death5.17 Moscow’s Migrants5.18 Indonesia: The Year of Anniversaries5.19 The First Commonwealth Immigration Act 1962: Fifty Years OnBibliography of Nigel Harris’s WritingsReferencesIndex