New directions in commodity chain analysis of global development processes / Jane L. Collins -- Trans-local and trans-regional socio-economic structures in global development : a "horizontal' perspective / Sandra Halperin -- Changing rural scenarios and research agendas in Latin America in the...

Globalization and catching up -- The key institution -- New developmentalism -- The tendency of the exchange rate toward overvaluation -- The Dutch disease -- Foreign savings and slow growth -- Foreign savings and financial crises

"This volume analyses contemporary capitalism and its crises based on a theory of capitalist evolution known as the social structure of accumulation (SSA) theory. It applies this theory to explain the severe financial and economic crisis that broke out in 2008 and the kind of changes required to...