International Review of Modern Sociology, Vol. 22, No. 1 (Spring 1992), pp. 65-78 (14 pages) This paper attempts to integrate liberal-pluralist and dependency perspectives on the relationship between ...

For decades, the global economy has promised convergence. The message has been straightforward: open your markets, liberalise your trade, attract investment, and prosperity will follow. Yet many ...

As a vehicle for the growing association of southern nationalists and Marxists, dependency theory is an important part of the history of our times, something much more than a school of academic ...

An interesting critique of the Iranian intellectual left who had their dogmas - particularly those around anti-imperialist struggle - shattered by the events of the revolution. Also contains ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Debt-free development is not only possible—it can become a practical model for shared prosperity when nations, nonprofits and ...