| Title |
Immanuelio Wallersteino kapitalistinės pasaulio sistemos teorija / |
| Translation of Title |
Immanuel Wallerstein's theory of the capitalist world-system. |
| Authors |
Žiemelis, Darius |
| DOI |
10.15388/LIS.2005.37111 |
| Full Text |
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| Is Part of |
Lietuvos istorijos studijos.. Vilnius : Vilniaus universiteto leidykla. 2005, t. 16, p. 65-81.. ISSN 1392-0448 |
| Keywords [eng] |
Immanuel Wallerstein's theory ; CWS's theory ; economical development |
| Abstract [eng] |
The subject of Wallerstein's study of CWS's theory is the origin and development of the capitalist world-system itself. CWS arose on the basis of the European world-economy during the "long" 16th century (1450-1640) and has been in existence ever since. CWS is an economic world based on capitalist production and division of labour, politically organized in the form of a union between sovereign and competing states. An especially important distinguishing feature of CWS is the differentiation into three economic zones: the core, the periphery and the semi-periphery (according to their role in the world division of labour). The most important theoretical sources of CWS are dependency theory, F. Braudei's theory of history, K. Marx's theory of capitalism and the Marxist theory of imperialism. Because of the dominant significance of Marxist sources, CWS can be considered neo-Marxist theory. The development of the CWS's theory (from the 16th to the second half of the 19th c.) has three stages: 1) agrarian capitalism - the beginning of the CWS's theory; 2) mercantile capitalism - the outcome of the consolidation of the CWS's theory; 3) globalisation period of the CWS. The critics of Wallerstein theory of the CWS could be relatively differentiated in two groups - historians sociologists based on Marxism and sociologist also economists. The first group emphasises that the theory of CWS is deficient in empirical adequacy, ignores relationship between class structure and economical development, exaggerates the importance of market on the internal socio-economical development of countries and orientates toward economism. Sociologists and economists notice that the theory does not analyse explicitly the influence of institutions on the emergence of capitalism and institutional development of hierarchy of geo-economics zones. Synthesis of global and regional contexts investigating socioeconomic reality of the past could give higher empirical adequacy of the CWS's theory. |
| Published |
Vilnius : Vilniaus universiteto leidykla |
| Type |
Journal article |
| Language |
Lithuanian |
| Publication date |
2005 |
| CC license |
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