Schools of the 1960s and 1970s that explain poverty by the place of a country in a worldwide system of trade and power, including dependency theory and world-systems theory. A school belongs here when its cited article ties it to dependency or to a core and periphery view of the world economy. The group brings together the entries filed under the heading Dependency and World-Systems Schools, so a reader can compare them and move from one to another within the same part of the economic field.
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Dependency Theory (Wikipedia)
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Dependency theory is the idea that resources flow from a "periphery" of poor and exploited states to a "core" of wealthy states, enriching the latter at the expense of the former.
World-Systems Theory (Wikipedia)
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World-systems theory (also known as world-systems analysis or the world-systems perspective) is a multidisciplinary approach to world history and social change which emphasizes the world-system (and not nation states) as the primary (but not exclusive) unit of social analysis.
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