Major Works Online

• A Philosophy of Peace and Justice
• A Philosophy of Peace and Justice sitemap section
• Understanding the Global Economy
• Understanding the Global Economy sitemap section
• Dilemmas of Social Democracies
• Dilemmas of Social Democracies sitemap section
• The Nehru Lectures: Education for Constructive Development
• The Nehru Lectures: Education for Constructive Development sitemap section

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A Philosophy of Peace and Justice:Letters from Quebec
• Preface
• Letter 50
• Letter 57:
  The Healing Process and Sacred Texts
• Letter 60:
  What the World Needs Now
• Letter 61:
  Who Will Change the World?
• Letter 62:
  Concerning My Relationship to Ross Perot
• Letter 63:
  The Denkform of the Middle Ages or Como Ha de Hacer el Arroz
• Letter 64:
  Healing
• Letter 65:
  Let our Words be Acts of Love
• Letter 66:
  The Positive Erotic
• Letter 67:
  What is Wrong with the Economy?
• Letter 68:
  Poverty
• Letter 69:
  What Love Could Be
• Letter 72:
  Sermon on Foucault, "Love's Truth"
• Letter 74:
  Fighting the System

• Foreword by Betty Reardon
• Introduction
• Table of Contents
• Understanding the Global Economy: Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

1. Comparative Advantage
2. The Globalization of Production
3. Theories that Regard Choices of what Technology to Use as the Creators of the Global Economy
4. Kaldor's "circular and cumulative causation" as an Explanatory Principle for the Strategic Trade Practices of Firms and Nations, most Notably Japan
5. Theories of the longue duree, or Historical Discontinuity, as Explanations of the Genesis and Nature of the Global Economy
6. Marxist Theories, and the Feminist Theory of Maria Mies
7. Post-Marxist (Post-Structuralist) Theories
8. Recommendations: How to Work for Justice in the Global Economy
9. Concluding Scientific Postscript

Notes and References

Understanding the Global Economy: Detailed Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction

1. Comparative Advantage

1a. Comparative Advantage as Explanation
1b. Comparative Advantage as Prescription
1c. Comparative Advantage as Metaphysics

2. The Globalization of Production

2a. The Globalization of Production as Explanation
2b. The Globalization of Production as Prescription
2c. The Globalization of Production as Metaphysics

3. Theories that Regard Choices of what Technology to Use as the Creators of the Global Economy

3a. Technology as Explanation
3b. Technology as Prescription
3c. Technology as Metaphysics

4. Kaldor's "circular and cumulative causation" as an Explanatory Principle for the Strategic Trade Practices of Firms and Nations, most Notably Japan

4a. Kaldor's Explanations (from Myrdahl and Keynes)
4b. Kaldor's Prescriptions
4c. Kaldor's Metaphysics

5. Theories of the longue duree, or Historical Discontinuity, as Explanations of the Genesis and Nature of the Global Economy

5a. Historical Discontinuity as Explanation
5b. Historical Discontinuity as Prescription
5c. Historical Discontinuity as Metaphysics

6. Marxist Theories, and the Feminist Theory of Maria Mies

6a. Marxist Explanation
6b. Maria Mies' Prescriptions, and Marx's
6c. About Metaphysics

7. Post-Marxist (Post-Structuralist) Theories

7a. The Disintegration of Social Science
7b. Escobar's Ethics
7c. Gibson-Graham's Metaphysics

8. Recommendations: How to Work for Justice in the Global Economy

1. Confronting "Crises"
2. The role of political parties
3. The role of economic science
4. Expose the inconsistencies of neoliberal theory
5. Challenge hypocrisy
6. Structural causes and individual responsibility
7. Resistance and transformation
8. Maintain solidarity
9. The role of labor unions
10. Efficient public service
11. Building communities and networks
12. The role of intellectuals
13. Alternative think-tanks
14. Financial support for alternatives
15. Support those who speak out
16. Promote ethical investment
17. Think global, act local
18. Think local, act global
19. Develop alternative media
20. Raise popular economic literacy
21. Resist market metaphysics
22. Be realistic
23. Be pro-active
24. Challenge the "there is no alternative" claim
25. Promote participatory social democracy
26. Holding the line, and transformation

9. Concluding Scientific Postscript

Notes and References

• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Introduction/Some Perspectives on Cooperation and Sharing
• Making Invisible Causes Visible
• The Drama of Spanish Socialism--Tragedy, Farce, or Conceptual Error? Part I
• The Drama of Spanish Socialism--Tragedy, Farce, or Conceptual Error? Part II
• A Modest Hypothesis Concerning Swedish Social Democracy
• Historical Chart--Sweden
• Sweden's Rehn-Meidner Model: Too Good to Be True, Or, The Stumbling Blocks of Freedom and Prosperity?
• The Revenge of the Iron Law of Wages
• Hjalmar Branting's Uppfostran
• Karl Popper's Vienna
• Power and Principle in South Africa
• Islam and Economic Rationality in Indonesia
• The Stones That the Builders Rejected
• Middle Class Values
• The Venezuela That Might Have Been
• Social Democracy on a World Scale

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The Nehru Lectures: Education for Constructive Development sitemap section

Cover Page for the Nehru Lectures

Comment by Anand P. Mavalankar, Professor of Political Science
University of Baroda, Gujurat state, India

Lecture 1

Lecture 2

Lecture 3

Lecture 4

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