Samir Amin Pioneer of the Rise of the South /

• Main Author: Amin, Samir (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: SpringerBriefs on Pioneers in Science and Practice, 16
• Subjects: Environment.; History.; International relations.; Environmental law.; Environmental policy.; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice.; History of Science.; International Relations.

These texts by Samir Amin have been selected for the purpose of encouraging readers to learn more about his work to trace the historical trajectory of capitalism, which has consistently produced polarization at the global level.  Thus the dominated peripheries cannot hope to catch up with the social...

Table of Contents:

• Biographical Notes
• Bibliography
• Theoretical Model of Capital Accumulation and Development in the Contemporary World
• Unity and Change in the Ideology of Political Economy
• Is Social History Marked by Overdetermination or Underdetermination?
• Multipolarity in the 20th Century
• The Center Will Not Hold: The Rise and Decline of Liberalism
• The Countries of the South Must Take Their Own Independent Initiatives
• The Democratic Fraud and the Universalist Alternative
• Land Reforms: Desirable Land Tenure Reforms in Africa and Asia
• Transnational Capitalism
• Africa 50 years of Independence
• Aid
• Emergence and Lumpen Development
• Synthesis.