Readings in the Political Economy of the Caribbean

Girvan, Norman, & Owen Jefferson, (Eds.) Readings in the Political Economy of the Caribbean, Kingston: New World Group, 1971.

Reviewed in Caribbean Studies © 1973.
Reviewed in Social and Economic Studies © 1973.

From the introduction:

The nineteen articles reprinted in this volume are drawn mainly from New World Publications, and represent broadly the “new school” of political economy to emerge in the English –speaking Caribbean in the decade of the 1960’s. To appreciate their significance it is necessary to locate them in the context of the political, economic and intellectual developments of the region.

Contents:

INTRODUCTION

Part One: THE CARIBBEAN ECONOMY
1. Independent Thought and Caribbean Freedom, by Lloyd Best.
2. Size and Survival, by Lloyd Best.

Part Two: PLANTATIONS AND CORPORATIONS
3. Sugar, Our Life or Death?, by Havelock Brewster.
4. Sugar and Change, by George Beckford, Havelock Brewster, Robert Kirkwood, G. Arthur Brown, Clive Thomas, Orlando Patterson & Wilmot Perkins.
5. Issues in the Windward Islands-Jamaica ‘Banana War’, by George Beckford.
6. Corporate v. Caribbean Integration, by Norman Girvan & Owen Jefferson.

Part Three: CARIBBEAN COUNTRIES
7. Dependence as an Obstacle to Growth in Puerto Rico, by Eduardo Seda-Bonilla.
8. Jamaica’s Post-War Economic Development, by Owen Jefferson.
9. Trinidad’s Post-War Economy, 1945-1950, by Edwin Carrington.
10. Industrialization by Invitation in Trinidad Since 1950, by Edwin Carrington.

Part Four: POLICY ISSUES AND PROPOSALS
11. Imperial Monetary Arrangements and the Caribbean, by Clive Thomas.
12. Devaluation and Dependence, by University of the West Indies Economics.
13. Caribbean Economic Community, by Alister McIntyre.
14. Restructuring the Trinidad Economy, by Selwyn Ryan.
15. Planning and Economic Development in Guyana, by Havelock Brewster.
16. Measuring Economic Progress, by Owen Jefferson.
17. Why We Need to Nationalize Bauxite, and How, by Norman Girvan.
18. The Long Term Economic, Political and Cultural Programme for Guyana, by New World Associates.
19. Unemployment in Jamaica, by Norman Girvan, et.al.