The Globalization and Development Reader

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.

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).