The Underdevelopment of Development: Essays in Honor of Andre Gunder Frank - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 080397261X ISBN 13: 9780803972612

Casa editrice: Sage Pubns Pvt Ltd, 1996

Riassunto

Taking stock of political and economic development in the world today, this book re-examines development in an era of rapid social change, and reflects the work of an intellectual giant, Andre Gunder Frank. Gunder Frank deconstructed conventional development economics and modernization theory, creating dependency theory. Today dependency theory has been replaced by world systems analysis - the view that national and regional economic (and political) development cannot be seen in isolation; states are part of a global economy that, in a sense, dictates and limits action.

This is an excellent synthesizing volume on the state of development studies. Although a great part of its purpose is to pay tribute to its intellectual fat

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Contenuti

On Development and Underdevelopment - Andre Gunder Frank
The Underdevelopment of Development
PART ONE: ON DEVELOPMENT AND UNDERDEVELOPMENT - Samir Amin
On Development
For Gunder Frank - Eric R Wolf
Pathways toward a Global Anthropology - Philip L Wagner
Underdevelopment
Culture and Geography - Otto Kreye
The Debt Crisis Revisited - Herb Addo
Developmentalism
A Eurocentric Hoax, Delusion, and Chicanery
PART TWO: ON PERIPHERAL REGIONS - Theotonio Dos Santos
Latin American Underdevelopment
Past, Present, and Future: A Homage to Andre Gunder Frank - George Aseniero
Asia in the World-System - Samir Amin
On the Origins of the Economic Catastrophe in Africa
PART THREE: ON THE WORLD HISTORICAL SYSTEM AND CYCLES - William H McNeill
How to Think about World History - Barry K Gills
The Continuity Thesis in World Development - Christopher Chase-Dunn
World-Systems
Similarities and Differences - Albert Bergesen
The Art of Hegemony
PART FOUR: ON SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE - Gerrit Huizer
Social Movements in the Underdevelopment of Development Dialectic
A View from Below - Pat Lauderdale
Frank Justice rather than Frankenstein Injustice
Homogenous Development as Deviance in the Diverse World - Virginia Vargas
Women's Interests and Emancipatory Processes - Immanuel Wallerstein
Underdevelopment and Its Remedies

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Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Sage Pubns Pvt Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 080397261X
• ISBN 13: 9780803972612
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 448
• Redattore: Frank Andre Gunder, Chew Sing C., Denemark Robert Allen
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile