Global Development Crisis

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

• Figures and Tables page viAcknowledgements vii1 The Global Development Crisis 12 Friedrich List and the Foundations of Statist Political Economy 293 Karl Marx, Class Struggle and Social Development 534 Trotsky, Gerschenkron and the Clash of Marxism and Statist Political Economy 765 Creative Destruction and Global Inequality: From Marx to Schumpeter, and Back 1046 Class Struggle or Embedded Markets? Marx, Polanyi and the Meanings and Possibilities of Socialism 1357 Development Within or Against Capitalism? A Critique of Amartya Sen’s Development as Freedom 1618 Towards a Labour-Centred Development 181References and Further Reading 209Index 233

"Despite the rise of unprecedented inequalities in the global economy, the  neoliberal assertion that the 'free market' is an unalloyed source of economic opportunity for all countries retains enormous power and influence.  For the poor nations, it is market exclusion that is taken to be the central development problem.  Selwyn takes these sorts of neoliberal nostrums head on, arguing that understanding patterns of immense wealth and mass poverty requires a deep and sustained theoretical and empirical scrutiny of capitalist processes of development. The Global Development Crisis provides a masterful analysis of key development thinkers who provide the framework for a 'labour-centred development'."  Michael Watts, University of California, Berkeley "Selwyn's The Global Development Crisis advances critical debate about the goals of social change and how they might be achieved. Selwyn's critical engagement with influential ideas makes this a fecund text for students, faculty and activists. By bringing class relations back to the centre of development discourse, and outlining how a labour-centred development might emerge, Selwyn is doing great service to the goals of equality and human development."Ben Crow, University of California, Santa Cruz