Accumulation on a World Scale: A Critique of the Theory of Underdevelopment

by Samir Amin

Book Overview

Samir Amin has undertaken an ambitious task: nothing less than an analysis of the process of capital accumulation on a global level. Drawing on a wide range of empirical material from Africa and the Middle East, Amin attempts to demonstrate, through a critique of writings on "underdevelopment," how accumulation in advanced capitalist countries prevents development, however that may be defined, within the peripheral social formations, usually referred...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0853452725
• ISBN13: 9780853452720
• Release Date: January 1974
• Publisher: Monthly Review Press
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.5" x 8.3"