Andre Gunder FrankReorienting the 19th Century
Andre Gunder Frank was a path-breaking scholar in several disciplines over an illustrious and contentious 50-year career. First amongst his many important works is the book ReORIENT: Global Economy in the Asian Age, which sought to correct a Euro-centric world view of the development of the global political economy. Frank passed away in April 2005 while working on this new book, a sequel to ReORIENT.
German-American economic historian and sociologist who promoted dependency theory after 1970 and world-systems theory after 1984.
