Dynamics of Global Crisis

Writing in 1982, four of the foremost theoreticians of the world economy set out their understanding of the long-term dynamics of global capitalism. Dismissing the still-existing Soviet Union as a "paper tiger", they focused instead on the contradictions of the capitalist world-economy and produced work that canvassed the key forces that have dominated the end of the twentieth and start of the twenty-first centuries.

Samir Amin, Giovanni Arrighi, Andre Gunder Frank (1929-2005), and Immanuel Wallerstein are prominent scholars of world economy. They have been published and studied in every modern language, and have taught and lectured throughout the world.