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Giovanni Arrighi (1937–2009) was a prolific political economist who integrated social, historical, and political perspectives to explicate economic processes from the local to the global level. His most well-known works include “Labour supplies in historical perspective: A study of the proletarianization of the African peasantry in Rhodesia” (1970), which challenged the neoclassical model of rural labor supply by bringing in socio-political analysis, and The Long Twentieth Century (1994), which integrated the theory of capital accumulation with the international relation theory of world hegemony to unveil the pattern of world capitalist development and financialization from the fifteenth to the twentieth century. He also pioneered in empirically measuring the persistent stratification in the world economy and explored the different trajectories of world capitalist development in the twenty-first century.
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Arrighi, Giovanni. 1970. Labour supplies in historical perspective: A study of the proletarianization of the African peasantry in Rhodesia. Journal of Development Studies 6: 3.
Arrighi, Giovanni. 1990. The developmentalist illusion: A reconceptualization of the semiperiphery. In Semiperipheral states in the world economy, ed. W.G. Martin. Westport: Greenwood Press.
Arrighi, Giovanni. 1994. The long twentieth century: Money, power, and the origins of our times. New York: Verso.
Arrighi, Giovanni. 2007. Adam smith in Beijing: Lineages of the twenty-first century. London: Verso.
Arrighi, Giovanni. 2010. Postscript to the second edition of The long twentieth century: Money, power and the origins of our times. New York: Verso.
Arrighi, Giovanni, and Jessica Drangel. 1986. The stratification of the world-economy: An exploration of the semiperipheral zone. Review (Fernand Braudel Center) 10: 1.
Arrighi, Giovanni, and Fortunata Piselli. 1987. Capitalist development in hostile environments: Feuds, class struggles, and migrations in a peripheral region of Southern Italy. Review (Fernand Braudel Center) 10: 4.
Arrighi, Giovanni, and John Saul. 1973. Essays on the political economy of Africa. New York: Monthly Review Press.
Arrighi, Gioavnni, and Beverly Silver. 1999. Chaos and governance in the modern world system. Twin Cities: Minnesota University Press.
Arrighi, Giovanni, Beverly J. Silver, and Benjamin D. Brewer. 2003. Industrial convergence and the persistence of the north-south divide. Studies in Comparative International Development 38: 1.
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Hung, Hf. (2022). Giovanni Arrighi (1937–2009). In: Vernengo, M., Caldentey, E.P., Rosser Jr, B.J. (eds) The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95121-5_3130-1
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