“The crisis is a period in which a diseased social, economic, and political body or system cannot live on as before and is obliged, on pain of death, to undergo transformations that will give it a new lease on life.… — André Gunder Frank Copy Share Image
“Arnold Harberger, Milton Friedman & Co. Inc., your modest proposal of partial equilibrium for the general good is not without its own internal contradictions.… — André Gunder Frank Copy Share Image
“The crisis is a period in which a diseased social, economic, and political body or system cannot live on as before and is obliged,… — André Gunder Frank Copy Share Image
“It is ironic that Keynesianism originated as a weapon to combat depression, but became universally accepted and "successful" only during (and because of!) the… — André Gunder Frank Copy Share Image
“As to the efficacy of the policy recommended by Rostow, it speaks for itself: no country, once underdeveloped, ever managed to develop By Rostow's… — André Gunder Frank Copy Share Image
“The world system wide reality is the competitive dog-eat-dog war of all against all (à la Hobbes), in which only the few can win… — André Gunder Frank Copy Share Image
“Modern history, both early and late, was made by Europeans, who "built a world around Europe", as historians "know", according to Braudel. That is… — André Gunder Frank Copy Share Image
“The widely mis-interpreted 1998 'meltdown' of East Asia was a financial symptom of the renewed reality: In fact, it was the first round the… — André Gunder Frank Copy Share Image
“Most economic histories of the "world" not only omit most extra-European production and exchange (even most of that outside West Europe or even northwest… — André Gunder Frank Copy Share Image
“The most visible and often tragic sacrifice of proletarian socialism - not to mention internationalism - on the altar of nationalism, of course, has… — André Gunder Frank Copy Share Image
“Increasingly economic historians can draw analogies between the development of the present crisis and the period between the two world wars, as well as… — André Gunder Frank Copy Share Image
