The Capitalist World-Economy (Studies in Modern Capitalism)

Immanuel Wallerstein focuses on the two central conflicts of capitalism, bourgeois versus proletarian and core versus periphery. The essays include discussions of the relationship of class and ethnonational consciousness, clarification of the meaning of transition from feudalism to capitalism, the utility of the concept of the semi peripheral state, and the relationship of socialist states to the capitalist world-economy.Immanuel Wallerstein is the author of 'The Capitalist World-Economy (Studies in Modern Capitalism)', published 1979 under ISBN 9780521220859 and ISBN 0521220858.