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The Capitalist World-Economy

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Capitalist World-Economy
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Immanuel Wallerstein
SeriesStudies in Modern Capitalism
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:320
Dimensions(mm): Height 228,Width 153
ISBN/Barcode 9780521293587
ClassificationsDewey:330.1220903
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations 1 Maps

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 15 March 1979
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

In The Capitalist World-Economy Immanuel Wallerstein focuses on the two central conflicts of capitalism, bourgeois versus proletarian and core versus periphery, in an attempt to describe both the cyclical rhythms and the secular transformations of capitalism, conceived as a singular world-system. The essays include discussions of the relationship of class and ethnonational consciousness, clarification of the meaning of transition from feudalism to capitalism, the utility of the concept of the semi peripheral state, and the relationship of socialist states to the capitalist world-economy. This book is the first in a three volume collection of Wallerstein's essays. The Politics of World-Economy (1984) elaborates on the role of states, the antisystemic movements and the civilizational project. Geopolitics and Geoculture (1991) analyses both the events leading up to the collapse of the Iron Curtain, and the subsequent process of perestroika in the light of Wallerstein's own interpretations, and the ways in which the renewed concern with culture is a product of the changing world-system.

Reviews

'The thesis is argued vigorously and with considerable sophistication and will help sharpen perceptions of an important dimension of the structure of world economic relationships which informs much of the demand for a new international economic order.' International Affairs 'The Capitalist World-Economy deserves to be read carefully, critically, and intelligently.' Journal of Economic Issues