André Gunder Frank

“The most visible and often tragic sacrifice of proletarian socialism - not to mention internationalism - on the altar of nationalism, of…

— André Gunder Frank

“Modern history, both early and late, was made by Europeans, who "built a world around Europe", as historians "know", according to Braudel.…

— André Gunder Frank

“The world system wide reality is the competitive dog-eat-dog war of all against all (à la Hobbes), in which only the few…

— André Gunder Frank

“Most economic histories of the "world" not only omit most extra-European production and exchange (even most of that outside West Europe or…

— André Gunder Frank

“As to the efficacy of the policy recommended by Rostow, it speaks for itself: no country, once underdeveloped, ever managed to develop…

— André Gunder Frank

“The widely mis-interpreted 1998 'meltdown' of East Asia was a financial symptom of the renewed reality: In fact, it was the first…

— André Gunder Frank

“The crisis is a period in which a diseased social, economic, and political body or system cannot live on as before and…

— André Gunder Frank

“Arnold Harberger, Milton Friedman & Co. Inc., your modest proposal of partial equilibrium for the general good is not without its own…

— André Gunder Frank

“It is ironic that Keynesianism originated as a weapon to combat depression, but became universally accepted and "successful" only during (and because…

— André Gunder Frank

“Increasingly economic historians can draw analogies between the development of the present crisis and the period between the two world wars, as…

— André Gunder Frank