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050 14 $aHD82 .S425 2014
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100 1 $aSelwyn, Ben,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe global development crisis /$cBenjamin Selwyn.
264 1 $aCambridge :$bPolity,$c2014.
300 $aviii, 248 pages :$billustrations (black and white) ;$c23 cm.
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500 $aThis book challenges the assumption that a 'free' global market will afford the same opportunities to both rich and poor states Drawing on a number of nineteenth- and twentieth-century thinkers, Selwyn argues instead that class relations are the central cause of poverty and inequality, within and between countries.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 1 $aList of Figures and Tables Chapter 1 D The Global Development Crisis Chapter 2 -- Friedrich List and The Foundations of Statist Political Economy Chapter 3 -- Karl Marx, Class Struggle and Social Development Chapter 4 -- Trotsky, Gerschenkron and The Clash Of Marxism and Statist Political Economy Chapter 5 -- Creative Destruction and Global Inequality: From Marx to Schumpeter, and Back Chapter 6 -- Class Struggle or Embedded Markets? Marx, Polanyi and the Meanings and Possibilities of Socialism Chapter 7 -- Development Within or Against Capitalism? A Critique of Amartya Sen's Development as Freedom Chapter 8 -- Towards a Labour-Centred Development Bibliography
520 $aThe central paradox of the contemporary world is the simultaneous presence of wealth on an unprecedented scale, and mass poverty. Liberal theory explains the relationship between capitalism and poverty as one based around the dichotomy of inclusion (into capitalism) vs exclusion (from capitalism). Within this discourse, the global capitalist system is portrayed as a sphere of economic dynamism and as a source of developmental opportunities for less developed countries and their populations. Development policy should, therefore, seek to integrate the poor into the global capitalist system. The Global Development Crisis challenges this way of thinking. Through an interrogation of some of the most important political economists of the last two centuries D Friedrich List, Karl Marx, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Schumpeter, Alexander Gerschenkron, Karl Polanyi and Amarta Sen D Selwyn argues that class relations are the central cause of poverty and inequality, within and between countries. In contrast to much development thinking, which portrays 'the poor' as reliant upon benign assistance, this book advocates the concept of labour-centred development. Here 'the poor' are the global labouring classes, and their own collective actions and struggles constitute the basis of an alternative form of non-elitist, bottom-up human development.
650 0 $aEconomic development.
650 0 $aEconomic development$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aSocial classes.
650 0 $aSocial conflict.
650 0 $aGlobalization$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aCapitalism$xSocial aspects.
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