Readings in the political economy of the Caribbean / compiled and edited by Norman Girvan and Owen Jefferson ; contributors Lloyd Best, Havelock Brewster, George Beckford, Robert Kirkwood, G. Arthur Brown, Clive Thomas, Orlando Patterson, Wilmot Perkins, Eduardo Seda-Bonilla, Edwin Carrington, Alister McIntyre and Selwyn Ryan.

A collection of reprints of articles on Caribbean Political Economy with Suggestd Further Reading.

Introduction, 1 -- Part one. The Caribbean economy, 7 -- 1. Independent thought and Caribbean freedom / Lloyd Best, 7 -- 2. Size and Survival / Lloyd Best, 29 -- Part two. Plantations and corporations, 37 -- 3. Sugar, our life or death? / Havelock Brewster, 37 -- 4. Sugar and change / George Beckford, Havelock Brewster, Robert Kirkwood, G. Arthur Brown, Give Thomas, Orlando Patterson, Wilmot Perkins, 49 -- 5. Issues in the Windward Islands-Jamaica 'Banana War' / George Beckford, 77 -- 6. Corporate v. Caribbean integration / Norman Girvan and Owen Jefferson, 87 -- Part three. Caribbean countries, 103 -- 7. Dependence as an Obstacle to Growth in Puerto Rico / Eduardo Seda-Bonilla, 103 -- 8. Jamaica's Post-War economic development / Owen Jefferson, 109 -- 9. Trinidad's Post-War Economy, 1945-1950 / Edwin Carrington, 121 -- 10. Industrialization by invitation in Trinidad Since 1950 / Edwin Carrington, 143 -- Part four. Policy issues and proposals, 153 -- 11. Imperial monetary arrangements and the Caribbean / Clive Thomas, 153 -- 12. Devaluation and Dependence / University of the West Indies Economics, 159 -- 13. Caribbean Economic Community / Alister McIntyre, 165 -- 14. Restructuring the Trinidad Economy / Selwyn Ryan, 187 -- 15. Planning and economic development in Guyana / Havelock Brewster, 205 -- 16. Measuring economic progress / Owen Jefferson, 213 -- 17. Why we need to nationalize bauxite, and how / Norman Girvan, 217 -- 18. The long-term economic, political and cultural programme for Guyana / New World Associates, 241 -- 19. Unemployment in Jamaica / Norman Girvan et al, 267.