This paper revisits one of the classic debates on world capitalist development – the ‘transition to capitalism’ debate … framed in Robert Brenner’s classic critique of World Systems and Dependency Theory. It was originally presented to the July … modern world – the polarisation of the world’s national economies, grouped within two great and remarkably geographically …

This paper is a prepublication version of a paper accepted for publication by Third World Quarterly. It offers a … critique of the picture of world growth and world inequality generally disseminated by international agencies. The positive … the last century, was a systematic reduction in the prices of consumption goods in the third world. PPP statistics have …