Poverty and Development -- Measures of development and poverty -- Absolute poverty -- Relative deprivation and structural poverty -- Measuring development -- Modernization Theory -- The shackles of tradition -- Darwin's legacy: evolutionism -- Parts and wholes: functionalism -- The New Right: capitalism and neo-liberalism -- Theories of Underdevelopment -- The capitalist need for empire: theories of imperialism -- The ravages of colonialism: dependency theory -- Dependent development: world system theory -- False hopes: new international division of labour theory -- Unstable capitalism: regulation theory -- Robust tigers: the rise of post-Fordism -- Castells: Informational Capitalism -- The culture of real virtuality -- Globalization and identity -- The crisis of the state -- International crime -- The new economy: ICT and finance -- Where does Castells go wrong?