Business or The New Political Economy of Development

Business: Library Edition

Author: William Prid

This best-selling introductory survey text provides comprehensive coverage ofall functional areas within the field including management, marketing, accounting, economics, finance, law, and computer information systems. The Seventh Edition integrates an appealing design, innovative features, and extensive revisions to remain both accessible and relevant. Topical issues such as entrepreneurship, gender and diversity, change, social responsibility, and the growth of technology are included throughout to prepare students for today's business environment.

The pedagogical framework continually reinforces the material, and places abstract concepts into a practical context. The combination of chapter-opening cases involving well-known companies, end-of-chapter discussions which reference these cases, Spotlights that provide a visual snapshot of factual data, and actual advertisements allows students to understand the material's real-world application. To maintain the length of past editions, sections addressing Risk Management and Insurance have been moved to the appendix, while the appendices on law and government have been merged together. The inexpensive, flexible looseleaf format allows students to organize the material according to their individual needs and class schedule.

• New! E-business issues appear in various discussions, features, and examples throughout including Chapter 4, Navigating the World of E-Business.
• New! Each chapter contains a Using the Internet box, highlighting web sites that address pertinent concepts, companies, or topics.
• New! End-of-part cases feature a video segment, encouraging students to applylearned knowledge in reality-based activities.
• New! A US News and World Report Career Guide accompanies each text, and compiles career-related information and appropriate articles from the magazine including Charting Your Own Course and Flip-of-the-coin Jobs.
• New! The extensive technology package includes several study aids such as a set of 4 Audio CD-ROMs and the Real Deal CD-ROM.

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The New Political Economy of Development: Globalization, Imperialism, Hegemony

Author: Ray Kiely

This major new text analyzes changes and continuities in the current international order and their implications for understanding international development in the 21st century. The author assesses the extent and impact of globalization as well as the emergence of a more aggressive unilateralist and militarist stance by the United States and the debates this has provoked on hegemony, empire and imperialism. He offers a careful rebuttal of mainstream thinking on development and globalization while also challenging some key arguments of its radical critics.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgements     viii
Introduction     1
Defining globalization     2
Defining imperialism     6
Defining hegemony     7
Defining development     9
Globalization as a win-win situation: diffusing development     13
Globalization as a zero-sum game: development as underdevelopment     16
Globalization as uneven development     18
The structure of the book     25
Capitalist Expansion and Imperialism     27
The origins of capitalist development     27
Periodizing international capitalist development     30
Conclusions: three fallacies and the legacy of imperialism     39
Post-1945 Capitalism and Development     42
The post-war international settlement: Bretton Woods and the Cold War     42
The post-war boom     47
Development and the 'Third World'     49
Conclusion     57
The End of the Post-war Boom and Capitalist Restructuring     59
The end of the post-war boom     59
The US state and capitalist restructuring     63
Neo-liberalism and the developing world     67
Conclusion     73
Globalization and Contemporary Imperialism:Theoretical Debates     76
Defining globalization     76
Globalization, transnational capitalism and empire     87
Globalization, US hegemony and the 'new imperialism'     92
Conclusion     105
Cosmopolitanism, Globalization and Global Governance     106
Cosmopolitanism and global governance     106
The United Nations, universal rights and humanitarian intervention     109
The WTO and global economic governance     116
Civil society and the state in the international system     122
Conclusion     128
Globalization, Poverty and the Contemporary World Economy     131
Poverty reduction?     131
Market friendly policies, growth and poverty reduction     137
Neo-liberalism and the myth of global convergence     143
Conclusion: states, neo-liberalism and globalization     157
Globalization, neo-liberalism and the State     160
The state and globalization     161
From the developmental state to market friendly intervention     169
Reconstructing rogue and failed states     173
Beyond technocracy: the limitations of (neo-)liberal and statist perspectives on development     176
Conclusion: states, neo-liberalism and globalization     191
Globalization, Regionalism and Hegemony     193
US hegemony: strengthening or in decline?     193
The East Asian challenge     195
Europe: a progressive alternative?     216
US hegemony re-assessed     223
Conclusion: neo-liberalism, regionalism and development     227
Resisting Globalization?     230
Imperialism and anti-imperialism in the era of globalization     231
Islam and Islamism     236
Social movements: agents of post-development?     244
Global justice and anti-globalization     247
Conclusion     257
Conclusions     259
Revisiting globalization     259
Revisiting imperialism     260
Revisiting hegemony     262
Revisiting development     264
Notes     269
Further Reading     278
References     290
Index     325