The Globalization and Development Reader (eBook, ePUB)

Perspectives on Development and Global Change
Redaktion: Roberts, J. Timmons; Chorev, Nitsan; Hite, Amy Bellone

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Produktbeschreibung

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 global coverage, and for a student readership the materials have been subject to a higher degree of editing in the new edition * Includes a general introduction to the field, and short, insightful section introductions to each reading * New 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 632
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118735381
• Artikelnr.: 41739398

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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