Andre Gunder Frank

"Frank shows how Marx and Weber got it all wrong. A fundamental rethinking of the rise of the West and the origin of the world-system. Absolutely essential to understanding world history."—Albert Bergesen,University of Arizona "The great virtue of this stimulating book is its relentless push to redefine our framework for thinking about the early modern economy. . . . A benchmark study."—R. Bin Wong,University of California, Irvine

Global Economy in the Asian Age

ReORIENT

FRANK

Originally published: Monthly Review Press, 1967.

Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America

الاقتصاد الكوكبي في العصر الآسيوي

الشرق يصعد ثانية

In the Third World

Crisis

Most of Andre Gunder Frank's early work on the nature of underdevelopment focused on one continent: Latin America. Here he broadened his canvas and traced the world-wide effects of the process of capital accumulation from the period just prior to the discovery of America to the industrial and French revolutions. It is Frank's thesis that the world has experienced a single all-embracing, albeit unequal and uneven, process of capital accumulation centered in Western Europe, which has been capitalist for at least two centuries.

World Accumulation

Rhetoric and Reality of the New International Economic Order

"The great virtue of this stimulating book is its relentless push to redefine our framework for thinking about the early modern economy. . . . A benchmark study."--R. Bin Wong,University of California, Irvine "Frank shows how Marx and Weber got it all wrong. A fundamental rethinking of the rise of the West and the origin of the world-system. Absolutely essential to understanding world history."--Albert Bergesen,University of Arizona "The great virtue of this stimulating book is its relentless push to redefine our framework for thinking about the early modern economy. . . . A benchmark study."--R. Bin Wong,University of California, Irvine

I. Capitalist development of underdevelopment in Chile. A. The thesis of capitalist underdevelopment -- B. The capitalist contradictions in Latin America and Chile -- C. Colonial capitalist Latin America -- D. Sixteenth-century capitalism in Chile: satellite colonization -- E. Seventh-century capitalism in Chile: classical capitalist development -- F. Eighteenth-century capitalism in Chile -- G. Nineteenth-century capitalism in Chile -- H. The twentieth-century: bitter harvest of underdevelopment -- I. Conclusion and implications -- II. On the Indian problem in Latin America. A. The problem -- B. The history -- C. The structure -- D. The laborer -- E. The market -- F. Capitalism -- III. Capitalist development of underdevelopment in Brazil. A. The model and hypotheses -- B. The development of underdevelopment -- C. The underdevelopment of development -- D. Conclusion -- IV. Capitalism and the myth of feudalism ion Brazilian agriculture. A. The myth of Feudalism -- B. Capitalist agriculture -- V. Foreign investment in Latin American underdevelopment. A. The problem -- B. From colonialism to imperialism -- C. Neo-imperialism and beyond.

Why, while Europe, North America, and Australia have developed, have Africa, much of Asia, and Latin America remained underdeveloped? Andre Gunder Frank sets out to answer this basic question by showing how world capital accumulation has led to the differentiation of these regions within the single world-embracing economic system. Unequal exchange between regions, combined with the differential transformation of productive, social, and political relations within regions, has led to the capitalist development of some areas and to the underdevelopment of others.

Dependent Accumulation

Dependent Accumulation and Underdevelopment

Barry Gills

The historic long term economic interconnections of the world are now universally accepted. The idea of the economic 'world system' advanced by Immanuel Wallerstein has set the period of linkage in the early modern period but Andre Gunder Frank and Barry K. Gills think that this date is much too late. They argue an interconnection going back as much as 5000 years. In The World System, leading academics examine this issue, in a debate contributed to by William H. McNeill and Immanuel Wallerstein among others.

Five Hundred Years or Five Thousand?

The World System

Immanuel Wallerstein

Giovanni Arrighi

Samir Amin

Dynamik der globalen Krise

Eurasian history writing has invariably focused on the civilizations of China, India, Persia, Arabia and Europe. Geographically these regions encircle the wide area of Central Asia, which appears as a sort of black hole in the middle of the world, the home of migrants, monks and mullahs and above all of barbarians. However, the outlying civilizations were formed and even defined through interaction with Central Asia. Therefore, the intent of this study is to demand due recognition of the centrally important role of Central Asians in the history of their neighbours and thus their place in world system history as a whole.

The Centrality of Central Asia

América Latina, subdesarrollo capitalista o revolución socialista

?Quién es el enemigo inmediato?

Lationoamericana:subdesarrollo capitalista o revolución socialista

Quien es el enemigo inmediato?

subdesarrollo o revolución

América Latina

Un Ensayo Autobiografico

Subdesarrollo Del Desarrollo

Sociología del desarrollo y subdesarrollo de la sociología

James Morris Blaut

An important and provocative text which will profoundly affect the way we look at the evolution of the third world, at development and underdevelopment.

Andre Gunder Frank

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