Includes bibliographical references and index.

Manifesto of the Communist Party (1848) and Alienated Labor (1844) / Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels -- The protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism (1905) / Max Weber -- The stages of economic growth : a non-communist manifesto (1960) / W. W. Rostow -- The change to change : modernization, development, and politics (1971), and Political order in changing societies (1968) / Samuel Huntington -- The development of underdevelopment (1969) / Andre Gunder Frank -- Dependency and development in Latin America (1972) / Fernando Henrique Cardoso -- The rise and future demise of the world capitalist system : concepts for comparative analysis -- (1979) / Immanuel Wallerstein -- Rethinking development theory : insights from East Asia and Latin America (1989/1994) / Gary Gereffi -- Gender and the global economy (1999) / Valentine M. Moghadam -- The new international division of labor in the world economy (1980) / Folker Frbel, Jrgen Heinrichs, and Otto Kreye -- The informational mode of development and the restructuring of capitalism (1989) / Manuel Castells -- Cities in a world economy (2000) / Saskia Sassen -- Globalization : myths and realities (1996) / Philip McMichael -- Competing conceptions of globalization (1999) / Leslie Sklair -- It's a flat world, after all (2005) / Thomas L. Friedman -- In defense of global capitalism (2003) / Johan Norberg -- What strategies are viable for developing countries today? : the World Trade Organization and the shrinking of ""development space"" (2003) / Robert Hunter Wade -- Globalism's discontents (2002) / Joseph E. Stiglitz -- The new global economy and developing countries : making openness work (1999), and Has globalization gone too far? (1997) / Dani Rodrik -- Industrial convergence, globalization, and the persistence of the North-South divide (1999) / Giovanni Arrighi, Beverly J. Silver, and Benjamin D. Brewer -- The new development-security terrain (2001) / Mark Duffield -- The antiglobalization movement (2005) / Jeffrey D. Sachs -- Reconstructing world order : towards cosmopolitan social democracy (2002) / David Held and Anthony McGrew -- Environmental advocacy networks (1997) / Margaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink -- What can we expect from global abor movements?: five commentaries (2002) / Ralph Armbruster, Bradley Nash, Jr., Gay Seidman, Robert Ross, Richard P. Appelbaum, Jennifer Bickham-Mendez, and Edna Bonacich -- Transnational solidarity : women's agency, structural adjustment, and globalization (2002) / Manisha Desai -- Counterhegemonic globalization : transnational social movements in the contemporary global political economy (2005) / Peter Evans.