Amin Samir. Unequal Development: an Essay on the Social Formations of Peripheral Capitalism. Harvester Press,1976. - 440 p.. 1976

Samir Amin analyses 'the development of under-development', and uses Arghiri Emmanuel's Unequal Exchange to discuss the roots of unequal development in the neo-colonial world. He explicates the theory of unequal exchange in terms of examples.

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Contents

Introduction

The Precapitalist Formations

1. MODES OF PRODUCTION

2. SOCIAL FORMATIONS

SOCIAL CLASSES: THE ARTICULATION OF INSTANCES

NATIONS AND ETHNIC GROUPS

LONG-DISTANCE TRADE AND THE BREAKUP OF FEUDAL RELATIONS

THE BLOCKING OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TRADING FORMATIONS: THE ARAB WORLD AND BLACK AFRICA

THE BLOCKING OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TRIBUTE-PAYING FORMATIONS

The Fundamental Laws of the Capitalist Mode of Production

1. PRODUCTIVE FORCES AND PRODUCTION RELATIONS. IN THE CENTRAL CAPITALIST FORMATIONS means of controlling society shifts from domination of the natural means of production to

2. THE ACCUMULATION OF CAPITAL IN THE CENTRAL CAPITALIST FORMATIONS

3. THE CONDITIONS FOR AUTOCENTRIC ACCUMULATION: THE ROLE OF THE MONETARY SYSTEM

4; THE FORM OF AUTOCENTRIC ACCUMULATION: FROM CYCLE TO CONJUNCTURE

5. INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND THE INTERLINKING OF THE NATIONAL FORMATIONS OF CENTRAL CAPITALISM

From Specialization to Dependence

1. THE FOUNDATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL SPECIALIZATION

2. THE THEORY OF UNEQUAL EXCHANGE.

3. THE EXPANSIONISM OF THE CAPITALIST MODE OF PRODUCTION

4. EXTRAVERTED ACCUMULATION AND DEPENDENCE

The Origin and Development of Underdevelopment

A THEORY OF THE TRANSITION TO PERIPHERAL CAPITALISM

2. THE EXTRAVERSION OF THE UNDERDEVELOPED ECONOMIES

3. MARGINALIZATION

4. DEPENDENCE

THE BLOCKING OF TRANSITION

The Contemporary Social Formations of the Periphery

1. THE HISTORICAL FORMATION OF THE CONTEMPORARY PERIPHERY

2. THE GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PERIPHERAL FORMATIONS

3. FOR A STRATEGY OF TRANSITION

Index

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