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Immanuel Wallerstein
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Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1930–2019) was an American economist, economic historian, historian, and political scientist. Born in New York City, he held a Doctor of Philosophy degree and served as a full professor at institutions including Columbia University, Yale University, McGill University, and Binghamton University. His doctoral advisor was Robert Staughton Lynd, and his students included Georgi Derluguian and Beverly J. Silver.
Wallerstein’s fields of work encompassed sociology, historical sociology, the world economy, and the history of economic thought. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Phi Beta Kappa Society. He spoke French and English. Among his notable works are *La gauche globale*, *Despues del Liberalismo*, *Welt-System-Analyse*, *Uncertain worlds*, and *Le capitalisme a-t-il un avenir ?*. He died in Branford.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1930
- Died
- August 31, 2019
- Works
- 193
Top works
- La gauche globale
- Despues del Liberalismo
- Welt-System-Analyse
- Uncertain worlds
- Le capitalisme a-t-il un avenir ?
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 12
- Total plays
- 29
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Many-body physics with ultracold gases
· 2008 · cited 7,104x
- Quantum phase transition from a superfluid to a Mott insulator in a gas of ultracold atoms
· 2002 · cited 5,062x
- Dimensionality reduction for visualizing single-cell data using UMAP
· 2018 · cited 4,966x
- Critique of Pure Reason
· 1998 · cited 2,893x
- Quantum simulations with ultracold quantum gases
· 2012 · cited 1,946x
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Quotes
- “And in the present we are all irremediably the products of our background, our training, our personality and social role, and the structured pressures within which we operate.”
- “The past can be told as it truly is, not was. For recounting the past is a social act of the present done by men of the present and affecting the social system of the present.”
- “The essential feature of a capitalist world-economy... is production for sale in a market in which the object is to realize the maximum profit is the essential feature of a capitalist world-economy. In such a system production is constantly expanded as long as further production is profitable, and men constantly innovate new ways of producing things that will expand the profit margin.”
- “It is simply not true that capitalism as a historical system has represented progress over the various previous historical systems that it destroyed or transformed. Even as I write this, I feel the tremour that accompanies the sense of blasphemy. I fear the wrath of the gods, for I have been moulded in the same ideological forge as all my compeers and have worshipped at the same shrines.”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1930-09-28 ) September 28, 1930, New York City , U.S.
- Died
- August 31, 2019 (2019-08-31) (aged 88), Branford, Connecticut , U.S.
- Known for
- World-systems theory
- Spouse
- Beatrice Friedman
- Children
- Katharine Wallerstein, Robert Morgenstern, Susan Morgenstern
- Alma mater
- Columbia University (BA: 1951, MA: 1954, PhD: 1959)
- Thesis
- The Emergence of Two West African Nations: Ghana and the Ivory Coast (1959)
- Doctoral advisor
- Hans L Zetterberg [ sv ] , Robert Staughton Lynd
- Discipline
- Sociologist , Historian
- Sub discipline
- Historical sociology , Comparative sociology , World-systems theory
- Institutions
- Columbia University , McGill University , Binghamton University , École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales , Yale University
- Notable students
- Georgi Derluguian , Michael Hechter , John R. Logan , Beverly J. Silver
- Website
- http://www.iwallerstein.com/
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Encyclopedic overview
Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (/ˈwɔːlərstiːn/ also /ˈwɔːlərstaɪn/; September 28, 1930 – August 31, 2019) was an American sociologist and economic historian. He is perhaps best known for his development in sociology of world-systems approach. He was a Senior Research Scholar at Yale University from 2000 until his death in 2019, and published bimonthly syndicated commentaries through Agence Global on world affairs from October 1998 to July 2019.
He was the 13th president of International Sociological Association (1994–1998).
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