André Gunder Frank
(1929 –2005)One of the pioneers of dependency theory and a wide-ranging comparative and historical scholar of the global economy. Frank's Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America (1967) set ...
Annales School
[Th]A French school of historical thought, established by Marc Bloch and Lucien Febvre in the late 1920s and developed by Fernand Braudel in the 1950s and 1960s, which focuses on the idea of the ...
center–periphery
Describes patterns of unequal relations between relatively developed centers and less developed outlying areas within an economy or other system. Although Marxist theories of imperialism by Vladimir ...
core–periphery
The core—a central region in an economy, with good communications and high population density, which conduce to its prosperity—is contrasted with the periphery—outlying regions with poor ...
dependency theory
1. (sociology) A theory influential in the 1970s that the continuing poverty, social deprivation, and political instability in many poor countries was a result of their economic dependence on ...
Fernand Braudel
(1902–85)Frenchhistorian, best known as a leading light of the Annales School, and from his elevation to the Collège de France in 1949 until his death one of the most influential historians in ...
Frederick Winslow Taylor
(1856–1915)The founder of scientific management, who developed controversial theories of work-study and industrial efficiency, in the conflict-ridden American steel industry at the end of the 19th ...
globalization
In a general sense, the increasing worldwide integration of economic, cultural, political, religious, and social systems. Economic globalization is the process by which the whole world becomes a ...
modernization theory
The dominant explanation in the 1950s and 1960s of how broad-based economic and social development occurs. Modernization theory explained development as the result of the systematic rationalization ...
Thorstein Veblen
(1857–1929)American economist and sociologist. He is remembered in political and moral philosophy for the doctrine of conspicuous consumption, expressed in The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899). He ...
world-systems theory
Provides an account of the transnational development of capitalism and a theory of the global structure of inequality among nations. Along with dependency theory, it challenged the prevailing ...
