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Cores, Peripheries, and Contemporary Political Economy

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This note underscores the need for more precise causal theories linking the international division of labor, national economies, and public policies. To that end, the author recommends two literatures upon which a revised dependency theory might build, namely, those on economic geography and the political economy of redistribution.

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Notes

  1. The literature on the “developmental state” in East Asia probably comes closest to fitting the bill, but with few exceptions (see Evans 1995 and Kohli 2004, for instance); it has been disinterested in generalizing beyond outcomes in a single region.

  2. For a critical look at the resource curse literature, see the essays in Lederman and Maloney (2007).

  3. Data for developing countries is from the World Development Indicators 2008. The data for the West European countries comes from Iversen and Cusack (2000) and is for the year 1960.

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Erik Wibbels would like to thank Rich Snyder and Patrick Heller for their critical engagement with an earlier draft of these pages.

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Wibbels, E. Cores, Peripheries, and Contemporary Political Economy. St Comp Int Dev 44, 441–449 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12116-009-9044-1

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