Towards a reformulation of core/periphery relationship: A critical reappraisal of the trimodality of the capitalist world-economy in the early 21st century

Perspectives on Global Development and Technology

Volumn 8, Issue 2-3, 2010, Pages 263-294

  Lee, Kwangkun ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Core periphery hierarchy; Global inequality; Immanuel wallerstein; Semiperiphery; Trimodality

Indexed keywords

CAPITALISM; CORE-PERIPHERY RELATIONS; ECONOMIC THEORY; GLOBAL ECONOMY; GLOBALIZATION; THEORETICAL STUDY; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY;

EID: 74549213951     PISSN: 15691500     EISSN: 15691497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156914909X423890     Document Type: Article

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