Dynamics of Global Crisis / Edition 24

by Samir Amin, Giovanni Arrighi, Andre Gunder Frank, Immanuel M. Wallerstein

Overview

Preeminent theoreticians of the world economy set out their understanding of the long-term dynamics of global capitalism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780853456063
Publisher:	Monthly Review Press
Publication date:	01/01/1982
Series:	Monthly Review Press Classic Titles , #2
Pages:	254
Sales rank:	587,413
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.57(d)

About the Author

Samir Amin was one of Africa’s leading Marxists and world-systems analysts. He is well known for his work on non-Eurocentric Marxism, imperial rent, the global monopoly phase of capitalism, delinking; his call for a Fifth International of workers and peoples and his anti-imperialism.

Giovanni Arrighi (1937-2009) taught in Europe, Africa, and the United States. He was a member of the Zimbabwe African Peoples Union in 1966, and was deported from Rhodesia for his political activities. In 1979, Arrighi joined Immanuel Wallerstein and Terence Hopkins as a professor of sociology at the Fernand Braudel Center at Binghamton University. He is the author of The Long Twentieth Century: Money Power, and the Origins of Our Times.