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Development: Theories, Research Designs, and Empirical Measures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2010

Immanuel Wallerstein
Affiliation:
Binghamton – N.Y.

Extract

This paper is a report of ongoing work at the Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economics, Historical Systems, and Civilizations. The premises of our research were published in “Research Proposal: Patterns of Development of the Modern World-System.” These premises can be stated briefly as follows.

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Copyright
Copyright © Research Institute for History, Leiden University 1980

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References

1. Review, I, 2, Fall 1977,111-45.

2. Ibid., 114.

3. Ibid., 120.

4. Ibid., 123. This point is developed at greater length in Research Working Group on Cyclical Rhythms and Secular Trends, “Cyclical Rhythms and Secular Trends of the Capitalist World-Economy: Some Premises, Hypotheses and Questions”, Review, II, 4, Spring 1979, 483500Google Scholar.

5. , Patterns”, Review, Fall 1977, op. cit., 124.Google Scholar

6. See my essay “An Historical Perspective on the Emergence of the NewInternational Order: Economic, Political, Cultural Aspects”, in The Capitalist World-Economy (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1979), 269–82Google Scholar.

7. See the various essays in The Capitalist World-Economy, op. cit., Part II: “The Inequalities of Class, Race and Ethnicity”.

8. See my “The Future of the World-Economy”, in Hopkins, Terence K. and Wallerstein, Immanual. eds., Processes of the World-System, Volume III, Political Economy of the World-System Annuals (Bevery Hills: Sage, 1980 forthcoming)Google Scholar.

9. This work is being done under NSF Project SOC 7825048, “Cycles and Trends of the Modern World-System”. The co-principal investigators are Immanual Wallerstein and Terence K. Hopkins. The research group also includes: Robert Bach, Kenneth Barr, Eric M. Berg, Hali Decdeli, Resat Kasaba, William G. Martin, Peter Phillips, and Robert Russell.

10. See Wallerstein, Immanuel, Hale Decdeli, Resat Kasaba, “The Incorporation of the Ottoman Empire into the Word-Economy”, paper prepared for International Conference on Turkish Studies, Madison, Wise., 05 25–27, 1979Google Scholar.

11. See my The Modern World-System (New York: Academic Press, 1974), ch. VI; also myGoogle Scholar“The Three Stages of African Involvement in the World-Economy”, in Gutkind, Peter C. W. and Wallerstein, Immanuel, eds., The Political Economy of Contemporary Africa (Beverly Hills: Sage, 1976), esp. pp. 3039Google Scholar.

12. A preliminary statement of these propositions is to be found in Immanuel Wallerstein, William G. Martin and Torry Dickinson, “Household Structures and Production Processes: Theoretical Concerns, plus data from southern Africa and nineteenth-century United States”, paper delivered at Colloquium on “Production and Reproduction of the Labor Force”, S. Giovanni in Fiore, Italy, June 18–20, 1979.