This paper revisits one of the classic debates on world capitalist development – the ‘transition to capitalism’ debate …. However the reverse happens, and development theory is deprived of an adequate explanation for national differentiation in … assesses the skewed character which results, in contemporary accounts (both within and outside economics) of development …

(Eds) (2003) Value and the World Economy Today: Production; Finance and Globalization; pp91-118. London:MacMillan; ISBN: 1 …

advantages, above all when cemented by a world military role, does so at the cost of its technical advantage – the development of … confined to intensive development, specialising in technical superprofit. This steadily eroded the US’s technical advantage …

, such as the dependency theorists (of which Gunder-Frank's 'Development of Underdevelopment' is perhaps the most emphatic …

, essential in the medium to long term – are policies oriented towards human development. These produce an immediate increase in …, industrial development in the modern economy depends critically on human development, precisely because of modern technology … development, in the modern world, therefore march hand in hand. Such policies, contrary to established neoliberal dogma, require …

development addressing three fundamental structural problems: (1) In what technologies should a modernising, developmental … strategy focus? (2) What is the relation between economic and human development and how can the latter be assured by the course … reduce the consumption of resources, with all the attendant risks that beset modern development strategies including …