scholarly journals Global Economic History as the Accumulation of Capital Through a Process of Combined and Uneven Development: An Appreciation and Critique of Ernest Mandel

2007 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Karl O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Third World ◽  
Uneven Development ◽  
Historical Narrative ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
Late Capitalism ◽  
Capitalist Development ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World

AbstractO'Brien provides a critical assessment of Ernest Mandel's 1975 monograph Late Capitalism. In so doing, he offers a historical narrative that puts into question Mandel's framing of 'waves' of capitalist development as a process of capital accumulation that was dependent upon uneven development in the Third World. O'Brien starts by problematising Mandel's argument that an initial concentration of money, capital and bullion in the hands of Europeans explains combined and uneven development. He goes on to demonstrate that Mandel's (and Lenin's) notion of imperialism as a necessary conduit for the flow of surplus capital from industrialising Europe does not stand up to the historical evidence. In fact, O'Brien maintains an alternative thesis, namely that these marginalised regions were insuffciently penetrated by European capital.

Postdependency? The Third World in an Era of Globalism and Late-Capitalism

1997 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 205-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul James
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Late Capitalism ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World

Each year 14 million children—about 10 per cent of the number born annually—die of hunger.

The Decoupling of Farm and Household: Differential Consequences of Capitalist Development on Southern Illinois and Third World Family Farms

1988 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 453-482 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane H. Adams
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Third World ◽  
Family Farms ◽  
Capitalist Development ◽  
The Third ◽  
Farm Production ◽  
Working Age ◽  
Agrarian Societies ◽  
Women's Role ◽  
The Third World

The literature on women's role in economic development in the third world indicates that as agrarian societies industrialize, women tend to take on ever greater responsibility for agricultural production, in addition to their reproductive and household duties, as working age men and, in some cases, women seek wage labor to supplement insufficient farm production (Boserup 1970:80–81; Bossen 1984; Deere and León de Leal 1981; Ward 1984).

The Scandal of Enlightenment and the Birth of Disciplines: Is International Law a Science?

2010 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prabhakar Singh
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Third World ◽  
The Other ◽  
Late Capitalism ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Third World

AbstractToday’s mainstream international law scholarship (MILS) is concerned primarily with the issue of its scientificity. This brings us to the larger epistemological questions of linear modernity, narratives of circular progress, role of colonisation and rejection of pre-science. International law is not a self-contained regime as it draws insights from all the other disciplines that were born after the Enlightenment. This article makes a psychological investigation using Nandy’s psycho-political framework under the third world approaches to international law (TWAIL). It also sees, as a case in point, the invasion of modernity via late capitalism into tribal life as modernity’s apology for the “third” disenchantment. International Law’s evolutionary scientificity, therefore, has been examined through psychology and mythology in the post-colonial world.

Economic Dependency in the 1980s: Its impact on Third World Elderly

1984 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheila M. Neysmith ◽  
Joey Edwardh
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Third World ◽  
Old People ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
The Third ◽  
Alternative Perspective ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The Relationship

ABSTRACTThe purpose of this paper is to explore an alternative perspective for understanding individual and societal ageing within the context of global economic and social relations. The dependent status of Third World nations as a result of the process of capital accumulation is examined. It is argued that the manner in which Third World nations respond to the human needs of their old is subject to the relationship that entwines Third World and capitalist industralised nations. Moreover, it is argued that social policy and human service models are nurtured by the ideology underlying these economic relations. The assumptions behind two policy areas are examined. When diffused to Third World nations such social policies function to maintain national elites at the expense of the majority. In conclusion, questions are raised about the relevance of western models of ageing to the needs of old people in the Third World.

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