Andre Gunder Frank
1929 – 2005 German-American economist, sociologist, historian
The economist who framed underdevelopment as a product of the world capitalist system, not a lack of it.
- Affiliations
- Dependency theory school; world-systems scholarship
Andre Gunder Frank was a German-born economist who became a leading voice of dependency theory. He argued that the wealth of rich metropoles and the poverty of dependent satellites were two sides of the same capitalist system, coining the idea of the development of underdevelopment. His later work turned toward long-run world-systems and global economic history.
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- 1966 Andre Gunder Frank publishes on the development of underdevelopment central figure
- 1966 Andre Gunder Frank and 'the development of underdevelopment' central figure