The Modern World-System

Name: The Modern World-System
Author: Immanuel Wallerstein

by Immanuel Wallerstein

Analysis of global capitalism as an interconnected world system with core and peripheral economies

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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.

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