Development and Globalization A Marxian Class Analysis

includes index and biblioraphy

Introduction 1 1 Rethinking planning, development, and globalization from a Marxian perspective Planning 17 2 Essentialism and socialist economic planning: A methodological critique of optimal planning theory 23 3 Planning and class in transitional societies 45 4 The state and planning in Nicaragua 62 5 State, class, and transition in Nicaragua 83 Development 101 6 Radical theories of development: Frank, the Modes of Production school, and Amin 111 7 The costs of austerity in Nicaragua: The worker-peasant alliance (1979-87) 162 8 When failure becomes success: Class and the debate over stabilization and adjustment 9 Power and class: The contribution of radical approaches to debt and development 214 10 Capitalism and industrialization in the Third World:Recognizing the costs and imagining alternatives 241 11 "After" development: Reimagining economy and class 248 12 Reading Harold: Class analysis, capital accumulation, and the role of the intellectual Globalization 287 13 Fordism on a world scale: International dimensions of regulation 295 14 Class beyond the nation-state 318 15 Global fragments: Subjectivity and class politics in discourses of globalization 16 Globalization and imperialism 353