The Global Development Crisis - Couverture rigide

Selwyn, Ben

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0745660142 ISBN 13 : 9780745660141

Editeur : Polity Press, 2014

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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).

 

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Polity Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0745660142
• ISBN 13: 9780745660141
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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