Contents

Foreword vii

1 Polarising Development – Introducing Alternatives to Neoliberalism

and the Crisis 1

Thomas Marois and Lucia Pradella

Part I: Alternative Themes 13

2 Beyond Impoverishment: Western Europe in the World Economy 15

Lucia Pradella

3 Banking on Alternatives to Neoliberal Development 27

Thomas Marois

4 The Political Economy of Development: Statism or Marxism? 39

Benjamin Selwyn

5 The Globalisation of Production and the Struggle for Workers’

Unity: Lessons from Bangladesh 51

John Smith

6 The ‘Rise of the South’ 62

Alfredo Saad-Filho

7 Hegemony in Question: US Primacy, Multi-Polarity and Global

Resistance 74

Jerome Klassen

8 Neoliberalism, Crisis and International Migration 86

Pietro Basso

9 Neoliberalism, Social Reproduction and Women’s Resistance:

Lessons from Cambodia and Venezuela 98

Sarah Miraglia and Susan Spronk

10 Exploding in the Air: Beyond the Carbon Trail Of Neoliberal

Globalisation 108

Andreas Malm

11 Defend, Militate and Alternate: Public Options in a Privatized

World 119

David A. McDonald

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12 Utopian Socialism and Marx’s Capital: Envisioning Alternatives 131

Hugo Radice

Part II: Alternative Cases 143

13 Beyond Neoliberalism and New Developmentalism in Latin

America: Towards an Anti-Capitalist Agenda 145

Abelardo Mariña-Flores

14 Crisis and Class, Advance and Retreat: The Political Economy of

the New Latin American Left 157

Jeffery R. Webber

15 Taking Control: Decommodification and Peasant Alternatives to

Neoliberalism in Mexico and Brazil 169

Leandro Vergara-Camus

16 The Rise of East Asia: A Slippery Floor for the Left 180

Dae-oup Chang

17 Labour as an Agent of Change: The case of China 192

Tim Pringle

18 Alternatives to Neoliberalism in India 203

Rohini Hensman

19 Musical Chairs on the Sidelines: The Challenges of Social

Transformation in Neocolonial Africa 214

Baba Aye

20 Challenging Neoliberalism in the Arab World 226

Adam Hanieh

21 Socialist Feminist Alternatives to Neoliberalism in Turkey 237

Demet Özmen Yılmaz

22 Uneven Development and Political Resistance against EU Austerity

Politics 248

Angela Wigger and Laura Horn

23 Crisis, Austerity and Resistance in the United States 260

David McNally

List of contributors 271 Index 275

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