For decades, the global economy has promised convergence . The message has been straightforward: open your markets, ...

Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 48, No. 167, Samir Amin and beyond: radical political economy, dependence and delinking today (March 2021), pp. 66-81 (16 pages) Samir Amin’s large body of ...

“Ecology and capitalism, are, by their nature, in opposition” (Amin, 2009, p. 21). This blog employs a Marxist dependency framework as a useful “entry point from which to explore the contemporary ...

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Why is this nation poor? The answers are mostly framed by two paradigms in looking at the world’s economies: the modernization theory, the ideological backdrop to “development,” and the dependency ...