Introduction -- 1. Rethinking Planning, Globalization, and Development from a Marxian Perspective Planning -- 2. Essentialism and Socialist Economic Planning: A Methodological Critique of Optimal Planning Theory -- 3. Planning and Class in Transitional Societies -- 4. The State and Planning in Nicaragua -- 5. Nicaragua: The State, Class, and Transition Development -- 6. Radical Theories of Development: Frank, the Modes of Production School, and Amin -- 7. The Costs of Austerity in Nicaragua: The Worker-Peasant Alliance, 1979-1987 -- 8. When Failure Becomes Success: Class and the Debate over Stabilization and Adjustment -- 9. Power and Class: The Contribution of Radical Approaches to Debt and Development -- 10. Capitalism and Industrialization in the Third World: Recognizing the Costs and Imagining Alternatives -- 11. 'After' Development: Reimagining Economy and Class -- 12. Reading Harold: Class Analysis, Capital Accumulation, and the Role of the Intellectual Globalization -- 13. Fordism on a World Scale: International Dimensions of Regulation -- 14. Class Beyond the Nation-State -- 15. Global Fragments: Subjectivity and Class Politics in Discourses of Globalization -- 16. Globalization and Imperialism.;Development and Globalization is antiessentialist social theory at its very best. Whether re-reading socialist planning debates, economic and social development struggles in the global South, or capitalist and alter-capitalist theories of globalization, David Ruccio engages the contemporary conjuncture in fresh and exciting ways, demonstrating throughout the successes of the rethinking Marxism project and the immense potential and range of contemporary Marxian analysis. What Maurice Dobb did for twentieth-century critiques of socialist planning, capitalist development, and imperialist expansion, Ruccio redoubles for a new age of post-Communist and globalized political economy.