Frank, Andre Gunder 1929-2005

ReOrient global economy in the Asian Age by Andre Gunder Frank ( Book )
16 editions published between 1988 and 2008 in 3 languages and held by 1,526 libraries worldwide
Andre Gunder Frank asks us to ReOrient our views away from Eurocentrism to see the rise of the West as a mere blip in what was, and is again becoming, an Asia-centered world. In a challenge to received historiography and social theory he turns on its head the world according to Marx, Weber, and other theorists, including Polanyi, Rostow, Braudel, and Wallerstein. Frank explains the Rise of the West in world economic and demographic terms that relate it in a single historical sweep to the decline of the East around 1800. European states, he says, used the silver extracted from the American colonies to buy entry into an expanding Asian market that already flourished in the global economy. Resorting to import substitution and export promotion in the world market, they became Newly Industrializing Economies and tipped the global economic balance to the West. That is precisely what East Asia is doing today, Frank points out, to recover its traditional dominance. As a result, the "center" of the world economy is once again moving to the "Middle Kingdom" of China.

Capitalism and underdevelopment in Latin America; historical studies of Chile and Brazil by Andre Gunder Frank ( Book )
57 editions published between 1967 and 2009 in 7 languages and held by 1,224 libraries worldwide
"The four essays in this book offer a sweeping reinterpretation of Latin American history as an aspect of the world-wide spread of capitalism in its commercial and industrial phases. Dr. Frank lays to rest the myth of Latin American feudalism, demonstrating in the process the impossibility of a bourgeois revolution in a part of the world which is already part and parcel of the capitalist system." -- Back cover.

Latin America: underdevelopment or revolution; essays on the development of underdevelopment and the immediate enemy by Andre Gunder Frank ( Book )
14 editions published between 1969 and 2009 in English and held by 873 libraries worldwide
"In his second book, Andre Gunder Frank expands on the theme presented in his influential study Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America. It is the colonial structure of world capitalism, in his view, which produced and maintains the underdevelopment characteristic of Latin America and the rest of the Third World. This colonial structure penetrates everywhere in Latin America, forming and transforming all its features in obedience to its own imperatives and thereby imposing upon the region those characteristic features of poverty and backwardness which are not primarily the remnants of an ancient "feudal" past but the direct products of capitalism. This development of underdevelopment will persist, Frank argues, until the people of Latin America free themselves from world capitalism by means of revolution." -- Back cover.

Crisis in the Third World by Andre Gunder Frank ( Book )
14 editions published between 1980 and 1992 in English and held by 686 libraries worldwide

World accumulation, 1492-1789 by Andre Gunder Frank ( Book )
22 editions published between 1978 and 2009 in 3 languages and held by 656 libraries worldwide
In a highly productive, stimulating and incisive analysis, Andre gunder Frank studies cycles in capital accumulation, expansion and crisis.

Dependence and underdevelopment: Latin America's political economy by James D Cockcroft ( Book )
8 editions published between 1972 and 1986 in English and held by 646 libraries worldwide

Lumpenbourgeoisie: lumpendevelopment; dependence, class, and politics in Latin America by Andre Gunder Frank ( Book )
25 editions published between 1971 and 1979 in 4 languages and held by 630 libraries worldwide

Crisis in the world economy by Andre Gunder Frank ( Book )
14 editions published between 1980 and 1986 in English and held by 627 libraries worldwide

Dependent accumulation and underdevelopment by Andre Gunder Frank ( Book )
13 editions published between 1978 and 1999 in 3 languages and held by 588 libraries worldwide

The World system : five hundred years or five thousand ( Book )
17 editions published between 1993 and 2006 in English and Undetermined and held by 446 libraries worldwide