C.Y. Thomas

1938-·5,501 citations

Clive Yolande (C.Y.) Thomas is a Guyanese economist and political activist who served as a Professor of Economics and Director of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Guyana. He is a leading figure in Caribbean political economy and dependency theory, known for his 'convergence theory' and his role as a co-founder of the Working People's Alliance alongside Walter Rodney.

Works

228 works

Title	Year	Language	Citations▼
Dependence and transformation: The economics of the transition to socialism	1977	en	539
The poor and the powerless: Economic policy and change in the Caribbean	1988	en	360
The rise of the authoritarian state in peripheral societies	1984	en	343
Marx's concept of man	2004	—	210
Capital markets, financial markets and social capital (an essay on economic theory and economic ideas)	1996	—	167
The dynamics of West Indian economic integration.	1967	en	120
"Species-Being" and "Human Nature" in Marx	1982	—	85
Critical race theory and postcolonial development theory: observations on methodology	2000	—	83
Plantations, peasants, and state. A study of the mode of sugar production in Guyana.	1984	en	54
State capitalism in Guyana: an assessment of Burnham's Co-operative Socialist Republic	2024	en	53
Trade openness and inflation: Panel data evidence for the Caribbean	2012	—	49
Diritti di cittadinanza e Welfare State. Citizenship and Social Class di Tom Marshall cinquant'anni dopo	2002	—	47
" The Non-Capitalist Path" as Theory and Practice of Decolonization and Socialist Transformation	1978	en	45
Aspects of the theory of economic integration	1969	en	40
Guyana: The IMF-World Bank group and the general crisis	1982	en	37
Novo enfoque do desenvolvimento eo papel da ciência e da tecnologia	2003	—	35
Monetary and Financial Arrangements in a Dependent Monetary Economy	1965	en	32
Assessing the export of nursing services as a diversification option for CARICOM economies	2005	—	30
Restructuring the World economy and its political implications for the Third World	1989	en	28
Foreign currency black markets: lessons from Guyana	1989	—	27
Too big to fail: a scoping study of the Small and Medium Scale gold and diamond mining industry in Guyana	2009	—	27
Sugar: threat or challenge?; an assessment of the impact of technological developments in the high fructose corn syrup and sucrochemicals industries	1985	en	25
Sugar: threat or challenge? An assessment of the impact of technological developments in the high-fructose corn syrup and sucrochemicals industries.	1986	en	25
Plantations, peasants, and state	1984	en	24
The Dynamics of West Indian Integration	1967	en	23
The structure, performance, and prospects of Central Banking in the Caribbean	1972	en	21
The balance of payments and money supplies of a colonial monetary economy	1963	—	20
The Structure	1972	en	20
Bread and justice: the struggle for socialism in Guyana	1976	en	20
A model of pure plantation economy: comment	1968	—	18
On reconstructing a political economy of the Caribbean	2001	—	18
Guyana: The Rise and Fall of Cooperative Socialism	1984	en	17
Lessons from experience: structural adjustment and poverty in Guyana	1993	—	17
From colony to state capitalism: Alternative paths of development in the Caribbean	1982	en	17
Monetary and financial arrangements in a dependent monetary economy: a study of British Guiana, 1945-1962	1965	en	16
Revisiting the underground economy in Guyana 2001–2008	2011	—	15
Integration of science and technology with development: Caribbean and Latin American problems in the context of the United Nations Conference on Science …	2013	—	14
Nature and Artifice in Marx	1988	—	13
Walter Rodney and the Caribbean revolution	1982	en	13
Globalisation as paradigm shift: response from the South	2000	—	13
Omai's gold production in Guyana	1998	—	13
Class struggle, social development and the theory of the non-capitalist path	1978	en	12
Industrialization and the transformation of Africa: An alternative strategy to MNC expansion	1975	—	12
The cambio-system of an independent exchange rate float: the case of Guyana	1991	en	12
1974Dependence and Transformation: The Economics of the Transition to Socialism	—	en	11
Neo-Colonialism and Caribbean Integration	1979	—	10
The Transition to Socialism: issues of economic strategy in Tanzanian-type economies	1972	—	10
A STATE OF DISARRAY: PUBLIC POLICY IN THE CARIBBEAN .	2016	—	10
Globalization, Structural Adjustment and Security: The Collapse of the Post-Colonial Development State in the Caribbean	1998	—	10
Making Global Trade Work for people: the concerns of small states in the Global Trade regime	2004	en	9