Selwyn The Global Development Crisis

1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-7456-8106-1
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten, E-Book

The central paradox of the contemporary world is the simultaneouspresence of wealth on an unprecedented scale, and mass poverty.Liberal theory explains the relationship between capitalism andpoverty as one based around the dichotomy of inclusion (intocapitalism) vs exclusion (from capitalism). Within this discourse,the global capitalist system is portrayed as a sphere of economicdynamism and as a source of developmental opportunities for lessdeveloped countries and their populations. Development policyshould, therefore, seek to integrate the poor into the globalcapitalist system.
The Global Development Crisis challenges this way ofthinking. Through an interrogation of some of the most importantpolitical economists of the last two centuries Friedrich List, KarlMarx, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Schumpeter, Alexander Gerschenkron, KarlPolanyi and Amarta Sen, Selwyn argues that class relations are thecentral cause of poverty and inequality, within and betweencountries. In contrast to much development thinking, which portrays'the poor' as reliant upon benign assistance, this bookadvocates the concept of labour-centred development. Here'the poor' are the global labouring classes, and theirown collective actions and struggles constitute the basis of analternative form of non-elitist, bottom-up human development.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Selwyn, Benjamin

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Figures and Tables page vi
Acknowledgements vii
1 The Global Development Crisis 1
2 Friedrich List and the Foundations of Statist PoliticalEconomy 29
3 Karl Marx, Class Struggle and Social Development 53
4 Trotsky, Gerschenkron and the Clash of Marxism and StatistPolitical Economy 76
5 Creative Destruction and Global Inequality: From Marx toSchumpeter, and Back 104
6 Class Struggle or Embedded Markets? Marx, Polanyi and theMeanings and Possibilities of Socialism 135
7 Development Within or Against Capitalism? A Critique ofAmartya Sen's Development as Freedom 161
8 Towards a Labour-Centred Development 181
References and Further Reading 209
Index 233

Über Autor(innen)

Ben Selwyn is Senior Lecturer in International Relations atthe University of Sussex. and author of Workers, State andDevelopment in Brazil: Powers of Labour, Chains of Value (2012)