Dependent Accumulation by Andre Gunder Frank

Dependent Accumulation by Andre Gunder Frank

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.

Andre Gunder Frank received his PhD from the University of Chicago and held professorships at at least five universities including the University of Toronto, where he wrote his major work, ReORIENT. His opus includes some forty books and nearly one thousand articles and other pieces in numerous languages, spanning fifty years of global political and economic development. He is best known as the author of dependency theory and was one of the founders of the World Systems approach. He lived and traveled widely including significant sojourns in Latin America that brought him into the ken of Che Guevara, Allende, and ultimately Pinochet whose bloody coup drove Gunder Frank back to Europe. Throughout the rest of his life, he continued to break new boundaries of research and thought and was still working on this book until two weeks prior to his death in a hospital in Luxembourg on Saturday the 23rd of April, 2005.

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ISBN 13	9780853454922
ISBN 10	0853454922
Title	Dependent Accumulation
Author	Andre Gunder Frank
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Monthly Review Press,U.S.
Year published	1979-01-01
Number of pages	248
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