Includes bibliographical references and index.

Globalization and Development: Recurring Themes Amy Bellone Hite, J. Timmons Roberts, and Nitsan Chorev Pt. 1. Formative Approaches to Development and Social Change -- Introduction -- Ch. 1. Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848) and Alienated Labour (1844) / Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels -- Ch. 2. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905) /
Max Weber -- Ch. 3. The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto (1960) / W. W. Rostow Ch. 4. Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective / Alexander Gerschenkron -- Ch. 5. A Study of Slum Culture: Backgrounds for La Vida (1968) / Oscar Lewis -- Ch. 6. Political Participation: Modernization and Political Decay (1968) / Samuel Huntington -- Pt. 2. Dependency and Beyond -- Introduction -- Ch. 7. The Development of Underdevelopment (1969) / Andre Gunder Frank -- Ch. 8. Dependency and Development in Latin America (1972) / Fernando Henrique Cardoso -- Ch. 9. The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System: Concepts for Comparative Analysis (1979) / Immanuel Wallerstein -- Ch. 10. Taiwan’s Economic History: A Case of Etatisme and a Challenge to Dependency Theory (1979) / Alice H. Amsden -- Ch. 11. Rethinking Development Theory: Insights from East Asia and Latin America (1989) / Gary Gereffi -- Ch. 12. Interrogating Development: Feminism, Gender and Policy (1998) /
Ruth Pearson and Cecile Jackson -- Ch. 13. Why Is Buying a “Madras” Cotton Shirt a Political Act? A Feminist Commodity Chain Analysis (2004) / Priti Ramamurthy -- Pt. 3. What Is Globalization? Introduction -- Ch. 14. The New International Division of Labour in the World Economy (1980) /
Folker Fröbel, Jürgen Heinrichs, and Otto Kreye -- Ch. 15. In Defense of Global Capitalism (2003) / Johan Norberg -- Ch. 16. It’s a Flat World, After All (2005) / Thomas L. Friedman -- Ch. 17. The Financialization of the American Economy (2005) / Greta R. Krippner -- Ch. 18. The Transnational Capitalist Class and the Discourse of Globalization (2000) /
Leslie Sklair -- Ch. 19. The Washington Consensus as Transnational Policy Paradigm: Its Origins, Trajectory and Likely Successor (2012) / Sarah Babb -- Ch. 20. The Crises of Capitalism (2010) / David Harvey -- Pt. 4. Development after Globalization -- Introduction -- Ch. 21. Global Crisis, African Oppression (2001) / Patrick Bond -- Ch. 22. Agrofuels in the Food Regime (2010) / Philip McMichael -- Ch. 23. Global Cities and Survival Circuits (2002) / Saskia Sassen -- Ch. 24. What Makes a Miracle: Some Myths about the Rise of China and India (2008) /
Pranab Bardhan -- Ch. 25. Foreign Aid (2006) / Steven Radelet -- Ch. 26. The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy (2011) / Dani Rodrik -- Pt. 5. Global Themes Searching for New Paradigms -- Introduction -- Ch. 27. A New World Order (2004) / Anne-Marie Slaughter -- Ch. 28. Transnational Advocacy Networks in International Politics (1998) / Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink -- Ch. 29. Multipolarity and the New World (Dis)Order: US Hegemonic Decline and the Fragmentation of the Global Climate Regime (2011) / J. Timmons Roberts -- Ch. 30. Changing Global Norms through Reactive Diffusion: The Case of Intellectual Property Protection of AIDS Drugs (2012) / Nitsan Chorev -- Ch. 31. Development as Freedom (1999) / Amartya Sen -- Ch. 32. From Polanyi to Pollyanna: The False Optimism of Global Labor Studies (2010) / Michael Burawoy -- Ch. 33. The Developmental State: Divergent Responses to Modern Economic Theory and the Twenty-First-Century Economy (2014) / Peter Evans.

This revised and updated second edition of The Globalization and Development Reader builds on the considerable success of a first edition that has been used around the world. It combines selected readings and editorial material to provide a coherent text with global coverage, reflecting new theoretical and empirical developments.

- Main text and core reference for students and professionals studying the processes of social change and development in “third world” countries. Carefully excerpted materials facilitate the understanding of classic and contemporary writings.
- Second edition includes 33 essential readings, including 21 new selections.
- New pieces cover the impact of the recession in the global North, global inequality and uneven development, gender, international migration, the role of cities, agriculture and on the governance of pharmaceuticals and climate change politics.
- Increased coverage of China and India help to provide genuinely global coverage, and for a student readership the materials have been subject to a higher degree of editing in the new edition.
- Includes a general introduction to the field, and short, insightful section introductions to each reading
- New readings include selections by Alexander Gershenkron, Alice Amsden, Amartya Sen, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Cecile Jackson, Dani Rodrik, David Harvey, Greta Krippner, Kathryn Sikkink, Leslie Sklair, Margaret E. Keck, Michael Burawoy, Nitsan Chorev, Oscar Lewis, Patrick Bond, Peter Evans, Philip McMichael, Pranab Bardhan, Ruth Pearson, Sarah Babb, Saskia Sassen, and Steve Radelet.