Sub-imperalism Revisited: Dependency Theory in the Thought of Ruy Mauro Marini
By (Author) Adrian Sotelo Valencia
Haymarket Books
Haymarket Books
23rd July 2018
United States
General
Non Fiction
Far-left political ideologies and movements
Left-of-centre democratic ideologies
Development studies
Development economics and emerging economies
History of the Americas
Colonialism and imperialism
Politics and government
Paperback
193
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
One of the central claims of dependency theory - the nearly dominate framework adopted by the entire discipline of development studies since the 1960s - was that the yoke of imperial powers, especially the United States, weighed so heavily as to preclude the possibility of nations in the Third World becoming peer competitors on the global market. But what does the growing economic might of regional superpowers like Brazil mean for these views