Development may be best understood in terms of the interplay among capital accumulation, the state, and class. Case-studies - Brazil, the Asian newly industrializing countries, China, and Mozambique - reveal three possibilities for overcoming underdevelopment: joining, leaving, or weaving through global capitalism.

List of Figures and Tables - Preface to the First Edition - Preface to the Second Edition - Acknowledgements - List of Abbreviations - A Note on Style - PART 1: INTRODUCTION - Public Platitudes and Unfounded Attitudes - PART 2: IDEOLOGIES AND STRUCTURES OF ACCUMULATION - Sources of Received Ideas about the Third World - Received Ideas and International Institutions - Back to the Nineteenth Century for New Ideas - PART 3: STRATEGIES OF ACCUMULATION - The Conventional Route, Joining Global Capitalism: Track 1, Brazil - The Conventional Route, Joining Global Capitalism: Track 2, the Asian NICs - The Exit Option, Withdrawing from and Re-entering Global Capitalism: China under and after Mao - The Alternative Path, Weaving through Global Capitalism: Mozambique - PART 4: THE BIG QUESTION - What Works in the Third World? - Postscript - Notes and References - Index