Book reviews : The Politics of the World Economy By IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN (Cambridge and New York,Cambridge University Press,1984). 191 pp. £17.50

Ernesto Laclau , 'Feudalism and capitalism in Latin America' , in New Left Review, (no. 67, 1971)

See H. Alavi , 'The structure of peripheral capitalism' in H. Alavi and T. Shanin , Introduction to the Sociology of Developing Societies, ( New York, 1982) and H. Alavi et al., Capitalism and Colonial Production, (London, 1982 ).

R. Brenner , 'The origins of capitalist development: a critique of neo-Smithian Marxism' , in New Left Review, (no. 104, 1977).