World Accumulation 1492-1789
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (898 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0875862047 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the Author Andre Gunder Frank, of the University of Toronto, has published more than thirty books. . Most recently he coedited, with Barry Gills, "World System: Five Hundred Years or Five Thousand?" (1996)
. Andre Gunder Frank, of the University of Toronto, has published more than thirty books. Most recently he coedited, with Barry Gills, "World System: Five Hundred Years or Five Thousand?" (1996)
He devotes particular attention to the successive incorporation into the single world system of Asia, Africa, and the Americas, whose economies and societies were transformed to contribute to the accumulation of capital in Western Europe and later in North America through exploitation, dependence, and unequal exchange.. Frank connects the downswings or crises in accumulation to the changing leadership positions as they shifted from Italy to Spain and Portugal and then to Holland and Britain. This book studies the effects of cyclical fluctuations in the process of capital accumulation - the sixteenth-century exp
"Economic alert." according to Linda E. Mccarthy. This rare book came with Amazon's usual speed. Dr. Frank's history must be in all university library collections if they are interested at all in change and continuity of social institutions. Well researched and controversial as it is we must give room to broader views if science is to survive the various onslaughts by entrenched interests. The students of Frank should try to pu