Soviet economists headed by the redoubtable Maksimova describe how their Western counterparts interpret the international economics of the capitalist world in its present state of crisis-trade, payments, investment, transnational corporations, regional integration, North-South relations, theories of international order and models for the future. For the most part they let the bourgeois schools of thought contend with each other, but periodically they provide a salutary dose of Marxist-Leninist scientific truth.