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Samir Amin

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Egyptian-French economist and political theorist (1931-2018)

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Works
145

Top works

  • Les effets structurels de l'intégration internationale des économies précapitalistes
  • L'accumulation dépendante
  • L'Accumulation à l'échelle mondiale
  • L'anticommunisme d'hier à aujourd'hui
  • Diyalugi devlet ve ayin

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Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
South Korea

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Key facts

Born
( 1931-09-03 ) 3 September 1931, Cairo , Egypt
Died
12 August 2018 (2018-08-12) (aged 86), Paris , France
Known for
Introduction of the term Eurocentrism
Alma mater
Sciences Po , Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques
Thesis
The structural effects of the international integration of precapitalist economies
Discipline
Economics , Political Science
Institutions
Institut Africain de Développement Économique et de Planification , University of Poitiers , University of Dakar , Paris VIII
Main interests
Dependency Theory , Marxian economics

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Encyclopedic overview

Samir Amin (Arabic: سمير أمين) (3 September 1931 – 12 August 2018) was an Egyptian-French Marxian economist, political scientist and world-systems analyst. He is noted for his introduction of the term Eurocentrism in 1988 and considered a pioneer of dependency theory.

Biography

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