Subject(s): Marxian economics -- Social conflict -- Capitalism -- Economic development -- Globalization in Economic aspects -- Rethinking planning, development and globalization from a Marxian perspective -- Planning : Essentialism and socialist economic planning- Methodological critique of optional planning theory, Planning and class in transitional societies, State and planning in Nicaragua, State,class and transition in Nicaragua -- Development : Radical theories of development, Costs of austerity in Nicaragua, When failure becomes success- Class and the debate over stabilization and adjustment -- Power of class- Contribution of radical approaches to debt and development, Capitalism and industrialization in the third world- Recognizing the costs and imagining alternatives, Reimaging economy and class, Class analysis, capital accumulation and the role of the intellectual -- Globalization : Fordism on a world scale-International dimensions of regulation, Class beyond nation-state, Global fragments- Subjectivity and class politics in discourses of globalization, Globalization and imperialism