Development and Globalization

Since the mid-1980s, David F. Ruccio has been developing a new framework of Marxian class analysis and applying it to various issues in socialist planning, Third World development, and capitalist globalization. The aim of this collection is to show, through a series of concrete examples, how Marxian class analysis can be used to challenge existing modes of thought and to produce new insights about the problems of capitalist development and the possibilities of imagining and creating noncapitalist economies.The book consists of fifteen essays, plus an introductory chapter situating the author's work in a larger intellectual and political context. The topics covered range from planning theory to the role of the state in the Nicaraguan Revolution, from radical theories of underdevelopment to the Third World debt crisis, and from a critical engagement with regulation theory to contemporary discussions of globalization and imperialism.

Autorentext

David F. Ruccio is Professor in the Department of Economics & Policy Studies at the University of Notre Dame, USA.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Twenty Years of Marxian Class Analysis 2. The State and Planning 3. Radical Theories of Development 4. When Failure Becomes Success 5. Power and Class 6. Capitalism and Industrialization in the Third World 7. 'After' Development 8. Fordism on a World Scale 9. Class beyond the Nation State 10. Global Fragments 11. Globalization and Imperialism