For decades, the global economy has promised convergence. The message has been straightforward: open your markets, liberalise your trade, attract investment, and prosperity will follow. Yet many ...
The ideas of the modernisation theorists, particularly those of Walt Rostow, remained dominant throughout the 1960s, but it was not long before they came under sustained critique from the intellectual ...
How does Marxist dependency theory help rethink the contemporary issue of environmental degradation?
“Ecology and capitalism, are, by their nature, in opposition” (Amin, 2009, p. 21). This blog employs a Marxist dependency framework as a useful “entry point from which to explore the contemporary ...
DEPENDENCY theory emerged in the 1960s and ’70s as a Marxist critique of the ideology of “modernisation” which argued that “poor” countries could “develop” by following the same path as ”wealthy” ...
Throughout history, nations have risen and prospered on the wealth hidden beneath the earth or growing from their soil. Coal and iron powered the factories of the Industrial Revolution, while oil and ...
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