"The Misery of Our Poor": Recent Studies in Development Literature

The article reviews and comments on "Centre and Periphery: Spatial Variation in Politics," edited by Jean Gottmann, "Under-Developed Europe: Studies in Core-Periphery Relations," by Dudley Seers, Bernard Schaffer, and Marja-Liisa Kiljunen, "Transnational Capitalism and National Development: New Perspectives on Dependence," edited by Jose J. Villamil, "The World-System of Capitalism: Past and Present," (volume 2 of the Political Economy of the World-System Annuals), edited by Walter L. Goldfrank, "Processes of the World-System," (volume 3 of the Political Economy of the World-System Annuals), edited by Terence K. Hopkins and Immanuel Wallerstein, and "The New International Division of Labour," by Folker Frobel, Jurgen Heinrichs, and Otto Kreye.