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The Development of Underdevelopment

1966; Monthly Review Foundation; Volume: 18; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.14452/mr-018-04-1966-08_3

0027-0520

André Gunder Frank,

Historical Economic and Social Studies

We cannot hope to formulate adequate development theory and policy for the majority of the world's population who suffer from underdevelopment without first learning how their past economic and social history gave rise to their present underdevelopment. Yet most historians study only the developed metropolitan countries and pay scant attention to the colonial and underdeveloped lands. For this reason most of our theoretical categories and guides to development policy have been distilled exclusively from the historical experience of the European and North American advanced capitalist nations.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.