There are two words guaranteed to get you escorted out of most development agencies, or sidelined in current development debates – they are: "dependency theory". Gone are the heydays of the 1970s when ...
For decades, the global economy has promised convergence. The message has been straightforward: open your markets, liberalise your trade, attract investment, and prosperity will follow. Yet many ...
This article is part of ourEconomy's 'Decolonising the economy' series. At a time when the COVID-19 pandemic and the murder of George Floyd have drawn attention to stark injustices and inequalities ...
The TUC’s NIKKI POUND says there are gains in the Employment Rights Act for women — but there’s a hell of a lot more to fight for DEPENDENCY theory emerged in the 1960s and ’70s as a Marxist critique ...
How does Marxist dependency theory help rethink the contemporary issue of environmental degradation?
“Ecology and capitalism, are, by their nature, in opposition” (Amin, 2009, p. 21). This blog employs a Marxist dependency framework as a useful “entry point from which to explore the contemporary ...
It is the age-old story of counter-revolution: not the restoration of the monarchy kind, but the intellectual kind, as the pendulum of ideas in development thinking swings back from the structuralism ...
An interesting critique of the Iranian intellectual left who had their dogmas - particularly those around anti-imperialist struggle - shattered by the events of the revolution. Also contains ...
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