Immanuel Wallerstein
Wallerstein's world-systems theory provided the most ambitious structural account of global capitalism as a single integrated system with core, periphery, and semiperiphery zones. The Modern World-System spans four volumes.
Works
- The Modern World-SystemAnalysis of global capitalism as an interconnected world system with core and peripheral economies
- World-Systems AnalysisIntroduction to world-systems theory framework for understanding global economic integration and inequality
- The Decline of American PowerArgument that American geopolitical and economic dominance is declining in the modern world
- Unthinking Social ScienceCritique of conventional social science methodology and call for more historical, structural thinking
- Historical CapitalismHistorical examination of capitalism's development from 16th century to present as world system